My hotlink account had expired about 36 days ago (last message notifying it was on 24 feb, "your hotlink account and number will expire in 3 days"). I checked my brother's phone as he was using my sim all this while. I've owned that number for about 15 years. It was a 012 prefix. I tried calling the number to see if anyone had bought it but it was "not in service". Is there any way I could get back that number? Maybe reactivating it under postpaid?

The only way is to subscribe as postpaid