Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
I'm puzzled by this. As far as I can tell the gold status only persists for a year. Thus you could do the $10 bit and get a year but next time you won't be gold and it won't work.
As soon as you reach gold status on T-Mobile PAYG, any refill after that will extend validity for an additional year. I've been doing this with a PAYG account for three years now ($10 at a time).
I'm not sure whether your gold status is revoked if you don't refill within a year. I'd rather not experiment with that.
Reading some fine print, it appears that your phone number is put into dormant status for an additional year. After that year, your number gets recycled.