Phone sim problem

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m12kop

Original Poster:

262 posts

222 months

Friday 24th December 2010
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Hi all, was trying to get the phone working on my 56 reg v8v but with sim in place keeps telling me to insert sim, the sim card is from 3, has anybody used a 3 sim or whats the prefered sim to use, thanks in advance.

SLacKer

2,622 posts

213 months

Saturday 25th December 2010
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I have an Orange sim in my DB9 worked first time with no problems. Salesman was a little surprised that it just worked with no issue. It is a Pay as You Go one.

m12kop

Original Poster:

262 posts

222 months

Saturday 25th December 2010
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Thanks, i'll give orange a go, merry christmas!

mph1977

12,467 posts

174 months

Saturday 25th December 2010
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don't £ sims have to go into a 3g phone and weren't 3 at one point locking sims to the phones IMEI ...

Ed.

2,174 posts

244 months

Saturday 25th December 2010
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The 3 sim is the only one that would not work as they use their own network and maybe a different frequency. Every other company uses 02, vodafone, orange, t-mobile networks so should work.

m12kop

Original Poster:

262 posts

222 months

Saturday 25th December 2010
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That sounds about right for me, the whole family are on 3 and when we get new phones they give free sims so we have 4 new spares, would have been to easy for me! Thanks everbody.

m12kop

Original Poster:

262 posts

222 months

Tuesday 28th December 2010
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Did the food shoping yesterday at tesco, whilst at the till saw sim cards for 99p so grabbed one, put it in car and it works, excellent, only problem when i switch phone on the infocentre reads TESCO, lol!

Deva Link

26,934 posts

251 months

Tuesday 28th December 2010
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m12kop said:
..the infocentre reads TESCO, lol!
rofl That's brilliant!

I even felt O2 looked somehow tacky in my car compared to the Vodafone that was there before I switched.

shunt

984 posts

231 months

Tuesday 28th December 2010
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I know how you feel, but I went for an Asda one, you guessed it ASDA Phone. Might need to change it!

m12kop

Original Poster:

262 posts

222 months

Tuesday 28th December 2010
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ASDA PRICE!Do theses cars come with a sim from factory, if so what net work?

Ed.

2,174 posts

244 months

Wednesday 29th December 2010
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There's a list on wiki to choose the least annoying.

m12kop

Original Poster:

262 posts

222 months

Wednesday 29th December 2010
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I liked the sound of gt mobile but its the only one blank,maybe on its way soon

Edited by m12kop on Wednesday 29th December 11:28