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Old 07-07-2006, 20:44
nockie3
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Hello!

Today i recieved an Orange sim card through the post which i ordered not long back off the website for free.

Today i rang them up and enabled the phone and got 300 free texts for a month and £12 worth of Orange World free for a month too! Quite chuffed with that. But ive found that ive got no 3G Coverage!

I occasionally see the phone switch to 3G with full signal but then it changes straight away back to 2G.
Whats going on? Do Orange have to enable this service on my account or do i have to have a 3G specific sim to use on Orange?

I know that my area has good strong Orange 3G signal.

Thanks!
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Old 07-07-2006, 20:57
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Light Orange lol! With the Orange Logo on.
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Old 07-07-2006, 23:32
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Hi, all,

There is a possibility that I will be buying off a mate a 3g phone in a couple of months but its not a done deal, so if I did get my number switched over to a 3g sim would it work in my current sim free K750i untill I get my 3g phone.
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Old 07-07-2006, 23:38
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Originally Posted by lamplite1c
Hi, all,

There is a possibility that I will be buying off a mate a 3g phone in a couple of months but its not a done deal, so if I did get my number switched over to a 3g sim would it work in my current sim free K750i untill I get my 3g phone.
If its not definate just don't bother changing your SIM card until you have the new phone.
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Old 08-07-2006, 08:10
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Orange 3G USIMs do work in GSM phones, unlike 3s (orange don't care whether you use their GSM or 3g network, it doesn't cost them more unlike 3).

I've done it quite a lot, so if you want just change to a USIM. You can then put it into a GSM phone and if you get a 3G phone it'll work straight away.
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Old 09-07-2006, 12:57
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Are you sure about that simax? I was under the impression that a USIM was slightly different technically, incorporating things like authentication on board.

Could it not be that the t mobile and voda SIMs are in fact already dual USIM/SIMs already?
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Old 09-07-2006, 15:07
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I always thought it was the case that a USIM was different as well. At least Gemplus have some products that mention 3G specifically & some that dont.

http://www.gemplus.com/pss/telecom/p...gmt_tools.html
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Old 10-07-2006, 19:38
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Originally Posted by simax

Orange (and I think O2) specifically provision 3G services onto 3G sims only. They could activate 3G on their 2G sims, but choose not to. That's their decision, no-one elses.

As for 3's USIM's, lets not go there, eh?
A 2G simcard on o2 is unable to function as a 3G simcard, the sim is unable to support UMTS.

3G access is only available using a USIM on o2.
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