20 years down the drain

Utterly disgusting. Vodacom decided to delete my number which I still use and need. Their reason? I was not adding money onto the sim and that counts as me not using it so they deleted it and gave it to someone else. What happened to the money that was still on there? Oh right, they simply stole it. And apparently the number cannot be retrieved for some reason. Truly shocking! I have had that number since 2001 and now 20 years of business and relationships I have created with the use of that number is gone, because of their absolute incompetence. It will be easier to sue Vodacom for losses than it will be for me to go through the effort of changing my number with the hundreds of people/businesses that need it to contact me and know me by that number. Useless.