After seemingly many deadline threats to get your Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile phone registered or disconnected the deadline has now definitely arrived :

November 8th 2009

Got an unregistered PAYG? - well guess what on November 9th you won’t have

happen this weekend , all ready phone that outside Espana have been hit over last few weeks . long Qs in lot the telphone shop again today
so better turn them on to keep you number and phone roming will need to have 1 call and text done every month to keep them on line , new rules been draw up by Movistar ... make more money

Jurdy

I guess that is only fair given all the work they have done to register them.