Cheers for that advice. Unfortunately the Orange locked phone I was going to get off eBay was won by someone else so i'm going to either wait for an o2 locked one or an unlocked one at a price I can afford. Or perhaps even et a different phone. I did have my heart set on this one though
I did ring a couple of mobile phone shops, but one of them could barely speak English, the other said he'd check if they locked that phone and after fifteen minutes waiting on the line and hearing the people working in the shop discussing the United V Barca game and then figuring he'd forgotten all about me I hung up and the final one didn't understand what phone I was talking about until I clarified it about five times then disappeared for a second to check came back and said yes we do and its a tenner. So I didn't really feel too comfortable using one of those and they were the nearest.
The search for lookoutapiano!'s new phone continues