Originally Posted by
weekilter
Not in the UK it isn't. Pay As You Go in the UK is exactly the same as prepaid is everywhere else. They don't sell prepaid in the UK at all because the term they use is Pay As You Go or Pay As You Talk. Postpaid is just what it says you pay for service after you use it, i.e. you are billed for service.
Whether or not you lose the number is not the point here. Pay As You Go means you have to pay for your service in advance before you can use it in other words it's a prepaid service. You are not billed for PAYG service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepaid_mobile_phone
Apparently one Israeli company has a variation on PAYGO where the customer somehow pays only after using airtime. I suppose they link the customer's credit or debit card to the account. Can't tell because the Hebrew-language site the OP linked to is an HTTPS site which Google Translate won't process. I'm not interested enough to copy&paste each page.... In any case, I suppose cell phone billing terminology was not etched into stone with the Ten Commandments, so if someone decides to use Pay as you Go differently, they're welcome to do so.