Telecommunication companies divide their subscribers into two kinds prepaid and postpaid subscribers. Both prepaid and postpaid subscribers are divided to differentiate many things such as how they will be charged, what kind of promotion packages will be applied to both subscribers, what are the benefits to have prepaid and postpaid phone number etc. Almost telecommunication companies will have more than 85% prepaid subscribers and the rest one postpaid. It is quite easy to have prepaid phone number rather than postpaid one and telecommunication companies used to campaign prepaid phone number to generate as many as subscriber by offering many benefits

1. Prepaid phone number

Subscribers should top up the balance while it reach zero balance or unable to make any kind of telecommunication services either call, SMS or data services. Prepaid phone number will have several statuses which indicate the capability to use telecommunication service. Right now, new phone number should register to 4444 to fulfill the owner identity. Once the registration completed, the prepaid phone number status will be “ACTIVE” which means that prepaid phone number is ready to be used to access telecommunication services for certainty duration as long as it has enough balance. “ACTIVE” status is allowing subscriber to have incoming and outgoing telecommunication services. Usually new prepaid phone number will active for certainty period either subscriber use the balance to access telecommunication services or not. When this period is over then prepaid phone number status will be “INACTIVE”. “INACTIVE” status is allowing subscriber to have outgoing service and blocking incoming service. During “INACTIVE” period, subscriber requires to top up the balance or reactivate to status by buying activation period. Prepaid phone number will have “INACTIVE” status for certainty period as well. Once subscriber adds the balance, the status will change to “ACTIVE” but if until the “INACTIVE” period, subscriber did not add the balance then the prepaid phone number will change to “DISCONNECT” status. “DISCONNECT” status means that the prepaid phone number is unable to be used anymore

2. Postpaid phone number

Postpaid phone number means that subscriber will pay the bill at the next month once they already used the telecommunication services. It is like prepaid phone number, postpaid one will have “ACTIVE”, “INACTIVE” and “DISCONNECT” statuses to indicate the capability to access the telecommunication services