Keep your stc number active while abroad

Keep an stc Saudi number active abroad from two prepaid terms pages that print two SIM lengths. The mobile page prints 180 days from the last paid activity. The other page prints a maximum of 360 days from the last activity paid from the balance.

The 90-day lines on both pages are the balance, from the recharging date. The Saudi Arabia page sets this card next to Virgin Mobile and the student count. sawa hybrid, item 10 on the mobile list, is 15 months and is not the 180-day sentence.

What the mobile page prints for SIM validity

The stc Saudi SIM validity of 180 days is item 6 under Prepaid SIM Cards. stc's mobile terms, checked 6 October 2026, state: "SIM Validity is 180 days, and it will be extended maximum by 180 days from the last paid activity performed by the customer."

The extension is a maximum, and the activity has to be one the customer performed and paid. The next item says that if the SIM card is canceled or expired, the balance available in the SIM card will be canceled, and the company has the right to re-disburse the number to another customer. The customer is not entitled to claim. Re-disburse stays re-disburse. Day 180 is the validity in the sentence above. The loss of the number, on this page, is tied to the SIM being canceled or expired.

Item 10 on the same list is sawa hybrid. It prints a SIM validity of 15 months, and the SIM and the balance will be extended for a maximum of 15 months from the last paid activity. That 15 months is the hybrid item. The card's twelve-month cell is unverified. Virgin Mobile is a different prepaid page, where 90 consecutive days may close the account. Ghana is one contract with two verbs, not these two stc pages.

What the other stc page prints for SIM validity

The stc Saudi SIM validity of 360 days is the other terms page, under the same heading, Prepaid SIM Cards. Those terms, checked 6 October 2026, state: "The validity of SIM Card will be extended for a maximum period of 360 days from the last activity performed by the customer and paid from the balance."

The activity in that sentence is paid from the balance. The maximum is 360 days. The next item says the SIM card will expire if no paid activity is performed for 360 days, and that the service will be permanently canceled. The mobile page's sentence, quoted above, is 180 days. This page's sentence is 360 days. A reader who keeps one of those figures and drops the other is reading one URL.

The 90-day balance on this page is a different item, the validity of the balance from the recharging date. It is not this 360-day extension. Whether roaming counts as the paid activity is unverified on the sentence.

What the 90 days measure

The stc Saudi balance validity of 90 days is the recharging item, not the SIM. The mobile terms state: "The validity of the balance in all recharging categories is 90 days from the recharging date."

All recharging categories, on that item, run 90 days from the date of the recharge. A later balance item renews that validity for a maximum of 90 days from the last activity paid from the balance, and it excludes a transfer from prepaid to prepaid. Leave that exclusion on the renewal item. The 180-day SIM sentence does not carry it. If there is not enough credit, the customer will not be able to complete the calls until the balance is recharged. That is the credit sentence. The SIM lengths are the two sections above.

The saved sentences name a paid activity. Whether an incoming message or roaming counts as that activity is unverified. The options page is where this hold sits next to parking the number or letting it go.