The article was pretty clear about this:
> Before I continue, I will answer the obvious question: Did I actually receive 999999 minutes? Yes, indeed I did. But unfortunately, I was only given 7200 minutes to spend my 999999 minutes and I could only spend them 1 minute at a time.
I would’ve enjoyed starting a conference call and adding multiple people in, breaking away from the 1 minute at a time limit.
And no explanation what happens after that with the minutes they had before.
& the closer:
>For five days I had a million minutes and I was possibly the first and only Vodafone minute millionaire