How long does it take for your SIM Card to get expire or deactivate for inactivity or unused in the Philippines? Your SIM Card will only starts to expires when your SIM account balance reaches ZERO or no load and you are given additional 120 days or 4 months to reload your account to remain active. If you didn’t reach the 120 days deadline, your SIM card will automatically expires and lead to disconnection of your prepaid account. All Telecoms in the Philippines like SMART (Sun Cellular, Talk n’ Text / TNT) and GLOBE (Touch Mobile / TM) are using the same method on sim card validity.
How to Prevent SIM Card From Expiring?
To prevent your prepaid SIM Card from expiring you only need to load your Prepaid SIM card account balance for atleast 1 Peso. Expiration of load will take 6 months to expires, meaning you have almost 10 months from the starts of your SIM Card inactivity before your SIM card gets expires.
How to know if your Prepaid SIM Card expired?
The easiest way to check the status of your prepaid sim card is by inserting your SIM to any mobile phones and if your prepaid SIM can still received signals or received a text message, your prepaid sim card should still valid.
What to do If you have expired SIM Card?
There are no ways to recover or to reactivate SIM card that expires, the only solution is you have to purchase another prepaid SIM card to continue using its service.
Updated as of November 20, 2016.
Ohs, so that’s how longs its wills takes before the SIMs card expires…..
HAHAHAHAS. XD
i have truebled that my pld sim card is deactivated already and i need that sim card number to recieved the yahoo code pasword.pls help.
same situation here
same problem here đ ant it so very very important đ
did you get your sim reactivated sir ? please respond. thank you
I have not been able to renew my SIM card. My pleas have fallen upon deaf ears no matter where I turned. I got a new SIM card and new number. I had to go to my bank (stand in line for 2 hours) and to everybody else that uses my old number and change it to a new number. Surely it’s a problem that takes all day to correct, but the cell phone companies don’t care, not even a little bit. It’s a way to keep a small stream of income coming and they do it just because they can. So I make sure to buy the smallest load possible once every 2 months to keep my number active.
i need to recover my simcard because i had an important contact please do actions regarding about this problem. i know it our fault but we need our old simcard like me!
any updates regarding reform or does the four month rule still applies as of 2020??
So there is no solution!!!
i have an active yahoo account but the sim card has expired. does this means if i replace it with a new one, my account with yahoo recognize the new numbers?
can i keep my cell number in the philippines even though my sim card expired
There’s no warning if it will expire or not????
“The number you entered is invalid” no it’s not, but they say it is. God hath spoken.
in 2022 – if you read on mobile app, buy load 10 piso will valid for 1 year! in 2022. + sim will able to reload with in 59days month after 1 year load expire. not lost ur number =)
CORNYYYYYYYYY kung sa pag kain nga may 3 months extend ehh
pls help me, what should i do if my globe sim card is made with unusable sim, can it be returned because thats what i registerd in my gcash right now, icant open my gcash idont need an otp how can i receive it if its unusable sim,
hello po mababalik pa po ba yung sim q na magamit po na globe kc bgla nalng po sya ng unusable sim..yun po kc naka register q sa gcash ko ngsyun po hnd q ma open gcash q kc hnd po aq mka tanggap n g otp kc wla na n ga po signal sim q panu po ba sya maibabalik