If you come to the conclusion after reading that I'm bored, you're probably right. But here go two unusual questions.
- I have an unactivated Woolies SIM left over from last year's half price voucher frenzy. It is slightly past the expiry date on the pack. Questions: 1. Has anybody been successful in activating an expired SIM, and 2. What would happen if I do activate it, go to my account and recharge it with Connect 4 Less, rather than Woolies $29 or $49? (Woolies uses Optus's account management site.)
Reason is it might be useful for a visitor as C4L has free or very low per minute rates for a few countries, paying only flagfall. Yeah I know, I only save $2 on a new Optus SIM, but hey, this is OzB, and I'm a curious person.
- I tried porting an old Optus number to a Crazy Johns SIM that I got for free a while back with the intention of killing the old account, to not accumulate another active SIM, and to extend the life of the number for receiving calls only. No expiry date printed anywhere that I can see on pack. No recharge was done. I received confirmation of my activation request but no account details when I login. Question: Is this account active for receiving calls? I suppose I could test this by calling the number.
My understanding is that expiry dates on SIMs are usually related to the potential re-use of the allocated number. SIMs are pre-provisioned in batches and if they're the sort that already have a number printed on the packaging, they will want to be able to re-use that if nobody activates the SIM. So I guess it depends on whether they have already reclaimed that number, or whether their systems treat that expiry as a hard limit.
As for the recharge through Connect 4 Less, I'm not really familiar with Woolworths' role here, but if they're acting as an MVNO, which essentially means they buy in bulk from Optus and then retail the service to their customers, you probably wouldn't be allowed to recharge from a different site.