my genie sim is the one that came out when it first started gary....
ithe o2 rep came into my store today and i quizzed him on the 3G tariffs for payngo consumers etc...he said that o2 are launching a slew of new tariffs for PAYNGO customers next month and that they are very very good...also, they are putting together 4 new tariffs for 3G users which, he says are quite simply astonishing..wheather thats true remains to be seen..but, when i see him again on the first of march i'll give you guys the full run down on the tarriffs...Also, he let me use his 3G payngo sim today and i gota say...wow...it's fantastic... 😃
If I want to keep my genie sim and use a 6630 with gprs and 3g stuff is this possible and who would i call to sort it as the last time i rang they just wanted to get me off the contract.
Hi gary.
everywhere i've read about o2's 3G service states that the 3G service is a device specific feature & has nothing to do with your sim. so as far as i can understand you should be able to use 3G on your current genie sim.
it may just be a case that 3G coverage has not came to your area yet. also i read somewhere that o2 are still to launch the service for pay as you go customers. you might just have to play the waiting game.
GRIM REAPER wrote:Hi gary.everywhere i've read about o2's 3G service states that the 3G service is a device specific feature & has nothing to do with your sim. so as far as i can understand you should be able to use 3G on your current genie sim.
it may just be a case that 3G coverage has not came to your area yet. also i read somewhere that o2 are still to launch the service for pay as you go customers. you might just have to play the waiting game.
reaper, the launch date for payngo 3G is the 1st of march. also, you need to have a new sim for 3G. definitley... 😃 also, o2 were thinking of charging 65p a minute for video calls but have scraped that...the rep says that vid calls will be under 50p a minute....if ya care for video calls...which i don't.
I bought my 6630 on O2 UK from an independant shop just before O2 released their first 3G phones.
I know there's no O2 3G coverage where I live in Oxfordshire so I can't test it here. I also know I was able to access 3G services (from other operators, not O2 DE) in Germany recently.
What I don't know is whether I can use O2 3G services in the UK on my pre-3G SIM. I haven't been through central Birmingham or central London since I've had it so I've not been able to check definitively but I have been through Heathrow where I would have expected 3G coverage and I wasn't able to access 3G there.
So the question is: does anyone know if earlier SIM's (Jan 05) are able to access O2 UK 3G?
GRIM REAPER wrote:the 3G service is a device specific feature & has nothing to do with your sim. so as far as i can understand you should be able to use 3G on your current genie sim.
Is this not true then? Apart from the fact that they want me off that genie sim (dream on, or give me a better deal), is there any reason that it can't be just turned on somwhere? a sim's a sim isn't it?
garyparson wrote:Is this not true then? Apart from the fact that they want me off that genie sim (dream on, or give me a better deal), is there any reason that it can't be just turned on somwhere? a sim's a sim isn't it?
When I got my 6630 on vodafone ( I know don't laugh ) they just turned it on no new sim
madasaroo wrote:I bought my 6630 on O2 UK from an independant shop just before O2 released their first 3G phones.I know there's no O2 3G coverage where I live in Oxfordshire so I can't test it here. I also know I was able to access 3G services (from other operators, not O2 DE) in Germany recently.
What I don't know is whether I can use O2 3G services in the UK on my pre-3G SIM. I haven't been through central Birmingham or central London since I've had it so I've not been able to check definitively but I have been through Heathrow where I would have expected 3G coverage and I wasn't able to access 3G there.
So the question is: does anyone know if earlier SIM's (Jan 05) are able to access O2 UK 3G?
I've decided to reply to myself here, it's a bit like talking to yourself.
Anyway, it seemed like nobody on the forum here could give me the answer (or maybe I'm impatient) so I e-mailed O2 and got the final, definitive, reply:
[INDENT]Dear Jon,
Thank you for contacting O2 Customer Service.
I am sorry to inform that the SIM card that was bought before January do not support 3G. Currently the 3G supported SIM cards can be purchased only with the mobile phone. So, if you want to use the service, you will have to buy a new compatible phone and the SIM card comes in that.[/INDENT]
I find it bizarre that I can use 3G on my phone on the T-Mobile and Vodaphone networks when I'm abroad but I can't use it in my home country on my home network.
Come on O2, you could make money out of me here! Why not enable older SIMs?
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