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Orange 3G Sim Card?
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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Light Orange lol! With the Orange Logo on.
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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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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. |
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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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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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Join Date: Jan 2003
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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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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? ![]() 3G access is only available using a USIM on o2. |
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