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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Stupid question - I’m unaware of the processes surrounding prepaid SIM’s

Does the carrier have the ability to update or reset your balance, device and access at the SIM level? Do they even have to? Seems like running out of credit basically unregistered your device or something.
Not a stupid question at all. No one has fallen from the sky knowing everything.

As nieldk said, the direct answer to your question is yes. But I believe the real answer is it does not have to. "This service is/is not available" is a network internal state. Voice and SMS worked immediately after topping up. All the phone needed to do was try. I am happy to wager that as far as the provider is concerned, data was available immediately too. It was the phone's fault for not even trying. Once data was disabled, the phone got itself into a "this network has no data" state and the only way to get it out of that state was a power cycle.
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