Spent 5 hours trying to fix my SIM card in a Chiang Mai coffee shop

My Thai SIM just stopped working mid-call and it took me going to three different 7-Elevens before a clerk finally told me I needed to re-register with my passport number. Has anyone else had to deal with random SIM deactivations while bouncing around Southeast Asia?

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3 Comments

reese_hayes711mo ago

Honestly, same thing happened to me in Bangkok, just re-register and it works again.

evahenderson1mo ago

Does that actually fix it for good or does it just work for a little while? I noticed with a lot of online accounts now, you have to jump through hoops just to log back in after a password reset, kind of like how some stores make you re-enter your loyalty card info every time you visit. It's like systems are designed to forget you on purpose, @reese_hayes71. Yeah, re-registering can get you back in, but then you lose all your saved data or history, which is a real pain. I think it's part of a bigger pattern where companies push you to restart fresh instead of fixing what's broken, hoping you'll just give up and move on. Makes you wonder if they even want loyal users anymore or just new ones who won't complain.

laura_chen411mo ago

Yeah, I've been through that too. If you use the same email and a similar username, sometimes the old data still links back up after a day or two. Just save anything important first before you try it.