Esat Digifone sim card

chris2008x

Was searching through some old boxes in the shed and found an old Esat Digifone sim card in a Nokia 5110 I owned back in 1998/9. Phone still works perfectly but obviously the sim was cut off years ago. Got me thinking is there anybody on here who has or knows someone that still has an Esat Digifone sim card using it in their phone. I remember in 2007 when o2 got it's 3G license and I had to change my sim card to a 3G one when I upgraded to a Nokia E65 at the time so maybe all these sim cards have either failed or have been replaced by the owners to work in newer mobiles. Would love to know if someone is out there using one.

Fromthetrees

Hmm, I'm gona follow this thread with serious interest.

#mom, put the kettle on the boil, I'm gona be in for a long exciting night of reading, YES.#

Mint Sauce

I was using an esat card up until about 4 years ago, changed it when I discovered I couldn't use all the features on my nokia 5800.

orestes

Screw the sim card, can I have the phone? Those old nokias are indestructible!

Where To

I have a old cup in my house
I don't know how old it is, but it has a chip on the rim.

Boombastic

Op i'd put that sim card in a safe to preserve it for future generations, or to confuse the fcuk out of someone if you leave the safe locked when you move house

franktheplank

I've got some tin cans and a piece of string....

Where To

franktheplank wrote: »

I've got some tin cans and a piece of string....

You could take them for a walk then.

franktheplank

Where To wrote: »

You could take them for a walk then.

I'm thinking some sort of a crazy man Brassiere for my moobs.

MadsL

My dad had an old Nokia model that I was browsing to see if it would work in the US. Found out they were changing hands for up to $10,000 as there was a firmware hack whereby they could be made to spoof someones phone number and divert texts meant for that number to the phone. They were being used to hack bank accounts.

I looked at it closer and saw it was a particular batch number and factory and my Dad's phone was not one. Close shave with a moral dilemma.

akura

My mum does in her 13 year old Panasonic brick.

MadsL

akura wrote: »

My mum does in her 13 year old Panasonic brick.

Does what?


On second thoughts don't want to know...

The Barefoot Pizza Thief

akura wrote: »

My mum does in her 13 year old Panasonic brick.

The first ever mobile I had was one of these Panasonics, which my Dad bought for many of the family.

It's the same number I use to this day.

Damn aerials kept snapping off if you sat down with it in your pocket though.

We must have bought a dozen aerials a month between us

Wils110

The Barefoot Pizza Thief wrote: »

The first ever mobile I had was one of these Panasonics, which my Dad bought for many of the family.

It's the same number I use to this day.

Damn aerials kept snapping off if you sat down with it in your pocket though.

We must have bought a dozen aerials a month between us

I remember them things haha phones with aerials the young folk be looking at them laughing thinking it was a USB or something

im invisible

Im still using my Eircell 088 sim..

the_barfly1

Yeah I still have an old digiphone sim around somewhere. Saw it a few months ago while I was moving house. They had a much more interesting logo than O2 in fairness to them. Jesus, its ten years since I ported that number to Meteor. Getting auld now.

Kat1170

im invisible wrote: »

Im still using my Eircell 088 sim..

Thats why you're invisible

The King of Moo

I'm still using my Eircell sim card, from 2001 I believe. It's now in a "smartphone."

im invisible

im invisible wrote: »

Im still using my Eircell 088 sim..

Fail... they didn't have SIMs. :pac:


I had a Digifone SIM up until around 2004 or so. I remember an O2 rep on the phone sounded shocked when I said I had one. It wasn't *that* long ago then.

I also remembered when I was in my first job at the end of 2001, I found a very old Vodafone SIM in a box of screws. It had the old Vodafone logo (before they adopted the quotation mark logo). Vodafone Ireland never used that logo so I'm guessing it was a Vodafone UK SIM.

The Eircell SIMs were very bland, it just had the ICCID (starting with 8935301) on the back with no logo.

gg2

The Barefoot Pizza Thief wrote: »

The first ever mobile I had was one of these Panasonics, which my Dad bought for many of the family.

It's the same number I use to this day.

Damn aerials kept snapping off if you sat down with it in your pocket though.

We must have bought a dozen aerials a month between us

My sister had a gold one! I used to take it out on the street with me I thought I was the shiz:cool:

phasers

My Dad's had the same number since Eircell were around. Are they the ones Vodafone bought?

Anyway I set up a My Vodafone account for him a few weeks ago and his registered phone was a Philips Diga from 1997 :pac:

phasers

phasers wrote: »

My Dad's had the same number since Eircell were around. Are they the ones Vodafone bought?

Yep. Same as my dad. He originally got a Motorola analogue phone with an 088 25xxxxx number on prepay. When the analogue network closed he was moved to the same number but with an 087 prefix. Still has it today.

road_high

I was using one just up until last year. Never saw the point in getting a new SIM or it just nerver occurred to me...think it held like 80 numbers or something ridiculous.

rebel.ranter

Karsini wrote: »

Yep. Same as my dad. He originally got a Motorola analogue phone with an 088 25xxxxx number on prepay. When the analogue network closed he was moved to the same number but with an 087 prefix. Still has it today.

My original Eircell number was a six digit number after the 087 prefix, they added a digit around 1998 I think, so it became 087 2xxxxxx. So id say your dad's number didn't have the "2" originally.
All our family had phone numbers in sequence too, until I switched to a work phone on a different network 13 years ago, back whe you couldn't port numbers. In fact you could not move from prepay to postpay either.

Archeron

Motorola razor flip phone was one of my first, and for design was way ahead of its time. Still looks better than any new phone. Pity the battery only lasted six seconds on a full charge.