Prepaid ****le - number allocated to someone else due to nonuse

<p>I have purchased a prepaid ****le a few years back from Vodacom. Before I could receive the ****le I had to have the sim RICA which I did. I have used this frequently and if needed I wold recharge with a databundle. Now since Dec 2015 I have taken out a 10gig contract with Vodacom so my need to use the prepaid ****le has become less. I have last recharge the ****le in Jan 2016. We needed the ****le again last tuesday and so I have loaded 2 gb on the ****le but when we tried connecting it indicates - SIM not registered - so I phoned Vodacom to assist. They indicated to me that since I have not used my ****le/ sim for more than 3 or 4 or 7 months (get various versions from various people I speak with) he number has been taken away from me and been recycled for use again. SO I asked them to transfer my 2 gb to another device which the blatantly refuse to do because I shuld go and read the fine print of the T & C's. First of all - I have purchase a package which vodacom offered to clients at a specific point of time - this package includes a ****le/ device as well as a SIM/ number. I have followed the RICA process and according to me that number belongs to me to use as I see it fit. I have not been informed that my number has been deleted or reycled. I have neither entered/ captured a wrong number but honestly went and purchase data for MY number. The transaction went through and now Vodacom simply refuses to transfer my data to another number allocated to me. I want my 2 gb of data which I have purchased in good faith transferred to another number under my name. Is this too much to ask? </p>