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I inadvertently let my chippie cellphone number expire. What should I do now to make sure I can use my phone on the island? Thanks.

Probably get a new SIM card, which will be a new number. You might go to an office or TechHub when on the island and see if they can reactivate it, although I doubt it.

I forgot to timely replenish my sim card a few years ago. I do that by adding a dollar to the card from money prepaid on my Chippie account and that extends it about 60 days. The Chippie website indicated that it had expired because I hadn't replenished it. I went ahead and added a dollar to the card and that reinstated it. Since then I have forgotten to add the dollar prior to expiration a few times but it has always allowed me to add the dollar after it expired and the expiration status went away. I would try that before buying a new sim card.

I had the same experience and was able to add the dollar 3 weeks late and restore my number.

Not sure if it is down or gone but the Top-Up site I used to add credit from my Top-Up card has not worked for the past 2 days.

I added credit from the card a week ago and just now checked the expiration date and it was working.

That website also explains how to order a new card from the US. Don't know how late the original poster is, but that also might work if he doesn't already have a card.

It appears either I was using an old URL, or it changed but I was able to find it.

http://buychippieonline.com/