whatsapp system is not your telco system.
whatsapp only see your number, not the ownership changes behind the number.


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you login to whatsapp, then try to close down the whatsapp account altogether. it's somehwere in the menu. see if that will clear things up after you register anew.

I did this account closure before, although I didn't change number.

you misunderstood.

any msisdn is recycleable. and judging by how active our mobile users are, slim chance that you'll be getting virgin numbers. my primary line registered ~7yrs ago already have 3 users before me.

how long a deregistered number gets recycled and re-offered on the market, it's up to the telco.

it just happened to be that you snapped up a msisdn (new, from your point of view) a month after it was deregistered by previous owner.



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of course your msisdn already have an active whatsapp since it was registered for by previous owner. *duh*

telco and whatsapp have no relationship. yes, the telco already cleaned up its own relationship with previous owner. but whatsapp does not have that deregistration detail. you can't blame whatsapp for maintaining the account opened by previous msisdn owner as account was never cancelled.

I had same issue with rhb. previous owner didn't pay celcom bill; got deregistered. then I registered. but since rhb have no relationship whatsoever with celcom, it never dissociate the number from previous owners, and until today rhb still refuse to clean up and stop sending TAC to me. hell, even all his/her whatsapp contact chased me instead for his/her unpaid monies.

ok, I misread the rant because I see whatsapp all over.

but still, why rant about the number get recycled too early or too soon.

it won't change the fact that it is recycled, and it wont change the relationship with any contact who had this number before. and it will still show up already registered in whatsapp one year later.

I only see nee number - recycle - whatsapp - complain