Aren't you supposed to take old SIMs to a police station?
Oh yeah!!!
And get a dumb retarded expression, that says WTF are you talking about.
I have rica'ed 15 + SIM's over the last few years that it has been required, that when they go "inactive" I just throw them in the trash can, as the service providers cannot/will not reactivate an inactive SIM ...
Par for the course when dealing with service providers in this country ...
Besides if you rica a new SIM, they know they have your latest and greatest personal details in their mailing data base which they can claim is checked regularly, so they can ask a higher price when they sell your details on to some other company so you can get spammed, and spammed and ....