Spanish Sim

"hammond" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Where can I get one of these

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:s...lnk&cd=1&gl=uk

Orange say I have to pay £300 deposit to take my UK sim abroad

Not identical, but try here:-
http://www.goglobalsim.com/index.html

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"hammond" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>Where can I get one of these
<smip>

Fleebay or wait until you get to Spain and pick one up there. Bear in mind
that your phone will need to be unlocked in order to use it.

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You don't have to pay anything to take your phone abroad except higher
charges. As already said, you can just buy a Spanish SIM for
about ten euros, or indeed a Spanish PAYG phone for about 50 euros, ie
like here. Actually you don't have to have your phone unlocked
to work with a foreign SIM. British phones are locked to not work on
the other three British GSM networks, ie if you have T-Mob, Orange
Voda or O2, it won't work on the other three, but will work on every
other network in the world. For example, my Spanish phone is on
Movistar so it won't pick up Amena or Vodafone ES over there, but here
in Britain it picks up all the networks, not just O2 (O2 own
Telefonica Movistar
or vice versa, I'm not sure).

I have noticed it only ever switches between Orange and O2, never the
other two, but that might be because they have more masts. I always
assume Orange and O2 are much bigger than Voda and T-Mobile in the UK.


On Sep 15, 9:07*am, hammond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Where can I get one of these
>
> http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:s...-sim-cards.com....
>
> Orange say I have to pay £300 deposit to take my UK sim abroad
>
> Stephen

"DA, Manchester" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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<snip>
>Actually you don't have to have your phone unlocked
>to work with a foreign SIM. British phones are locked to not work on
>the other three British GSM networks, ie if you have T-Mob, Orange
>Voda or O2, it won't work on the other three, but will work on every
>other network in the world. For example, my Spanish phone is on
>Movistar so it won't pick up Amena or Vodafone ES over there, but here
>in Britain it picks up all the networks, not just O2 (O2 own
>Telefonica Movistar
>or vice versa, I'm not sure).

Completely and totally wrong I'm afraid.

Generally when phones are locked, they are lockad to the supplying network.
For example, an Orange (UK) supplied handset will be locked to the MNC-MCC
of 234-33. This means that this particular handset will only work with an
Orange (UK) supplied SIM card unless it is unlocked.

Your Movistar supplied handset is either already unlocked (if you're using a
UK supplied SIM) or is simply roaming and utilising your Movistar SIM which
will allow you you use any UK network that the handset can get a lock with.

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"Richard Colton" <usenet@ NO PORK PRODUCTS uselessinfo.org.uk> wrote in
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>
> "DA, Manchester" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:220a6c93-40fa-442a-8884-6dcb44b0be9a@l43g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> <snip>
>>Actually you don't have to have your phone unlocked
>>to work with a foreign SIM. British phones are locked to not work on
>>the other three British GSM networks, ie if you have T-Mob, Orange
>>Voda or O2, it won't work on the other three, but will work on every
>>other network in the world. For example, my Spanish phone is on
>>Movistar so it won't pick up Amena or Vodafone ES over there, but here
>>in Britain it picks up all the networks, not just O2 (O2 own
>>Telefonica Movistar
>>or vice versa, I'm not sure).
>
> Completely and totally wrong I'm afraid.
>
> Generally when phones are locked, they are lockad to the supplying
> network. For example, an Orange (UK) supplied handset will be locked
> to the MNC-MCC of 234-33. This means that this particular handset
> will only work with an Orange (UK) supplied SIM card unless it is
> unlocked.
>
> Your Movistar supplied handset is either already unlocked (if you're
> using a UK supplied SIM) or is simply roaming and utilising your
> Movistar SIM which will allow you you use any UK network that the
> handset can get a lock with.
>
> --



A point also often missed - a PAYG phone will (generally) only work in a
country that has a PAYG network. A few years ago (don't know if now)
Belgium had no PAYG so my wife's Voda PAYG was useless there, but my
contract Orange was OK.

I think I am right in saying that all UK supplied PAYG phones are
locked, but many contract phones (notably Vodafone) are usually not. Any
phone supplied by CPW is usually unlocked. All phones supplied in France
are unlocked as it is an offence to lock them there.

For the benefit of the OP, Voda is usually considered as the biggest
network in the UK with Orange, O2, and T-Mob following up. 3 is
considerably smaller than any of the others but for data is much the
fastest (it was after all built primarily as a data system.)


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