article_snippet.sent: Take heed: Most major mobile phone operators regularly 'recycle' numbers when Take heed
article_snippet.sent: : Most major mobile phone operators regularly 'recycle' have been out of use for a three to six months . '
article_snippet.sent: This is nothing more than a rip-off to add insult to injury'.
article_snippet.sent: Most major phone operators regularly 'recycle' phone numbers when Most major phone operators have been out of use for a certain time.
article_snippet.sent: A Vodafone pay-as-you-go mobile is put into 'semi-quarantine' if no chargeable calls or texts are made for 90 days.
article_snippet.sent: After a further 90 days his mother's number is disconnected, and 270 days later his mother's number is recycled and given to another customer, with any credit on the phone lost.
article_snippet.sent: EE retires a pay-as-you-go number after 180 days of inactivity and O2 disconnects a pay-as-you-go phone after six months of no chargeable services.
article_snippet.sent: Tesco Mobile allows six months of inactivity before sending the customer a text to remind the customer to use the customer phone again, or the customer number will be lost.
highlights_snippet.sent: she hadn't used she pay-as-you-go phone
highlights_snippet.sent: so it had been disconnected .
  