'48' Mobile operator - Prepaid offer - 3000mins & 5000 texts €10per month

blubloblu wrote: »

They do the odd random spot check, asking you to send them a copy of your passport to activate the sim card.

How'd you know that? I doubt they can do that either. And anyway, even if they did ask you a passport copy, say no, cancel, and start again.

I seriously doubt that any real age restriction exists. It's an elaborate marketing ploy. Money is money at the end of the day, no matter the age of the person spending it!

Very true Schorpio, thats also the reason O2 weren’t bothering competing with other operators. They're letting 48Months and Tesco Mobile (O2 joint venture) offer cheaper rates on their network instead. It's similar to GiffGaff in UK, runs on the O2 UK network but sells cheaper calls, texts and data bundles using SIM only. That looks like a great little outfit, pity 48 Months isn't more like it .....

even though i have 15 euro, it wont let me top up of 10 on the basic top

only the internet,20 and then i dont have enough credit up any help

it seems they want you to use your credit card now for top ups

my voucher in mobile and when i tried to transfer to it to 10 euro basic calls it wouldnt let me

Our man in Havana wrote: »

You need to text "monthly" to 1745.

why do u have to do that now ??

i never did that before ?

Also if im in Spain will this Mobile Work on this Network ??

faolteam wrote: »

doubt i can send them

You can buy roaming add ons for calls and texts. Look at the website, that has the answer to all these questions.

www.48months.ie

This post has been deleted.

I know that some people have mentioned it before and it was covered earlier in this thread but does everybody on 48 see the "R" for roaming on the signal bars? Is this normal? I get this on mine and don't see 48 in the network list when I scan for mobile operators. Now I realise that they are a virtual operator using the O2 network but when I asked about this on the 48 forum they said (a) this was just a display issue and could be ignored or (b) I could get a new SIM and this would fix the problem (which I took to mean would get rid of the "R" and also list 48 as a network so I would be 100% sure that I was on the appropriate network and not at risk of being hit with additional charges). I tried (b) but the new SIM is the same. If (a) is correct then how do I know that I am on the "correct" network? And should that be O2?

Hope that's clear. I have a feeling that I'm making a dog's dinner of asking a simple question!

Thanks CM. Not sure why 48 gave the impression that a new SIM would address these issues ("R" on signal bar and no "48" in network list)... I was holding off on porting my existing number over until I got further clarification.

Does it matter which network I select? Presumably I should (must?) choose O2?

Thanks again for the quick reply.

OK-thanks.

I'm on a Vodafone Smart 858/Huawei U8160 running CyanogenMod 7.2. I can't see how to set O2 as the network to use "normally". Do I need to do this explicitly or just select it once and it will try to use that from then on?