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Can put UK SIM into any SIM-free phone?

Louche Lad · 2013-09-11 16:18:42

I have a Vodafone UK contract that I got with my phone some years ago. The phone's starting to fall apart, but I want to keep the UK phone number if the phone completely stops working. So if buy a "SIM-free" mobile here in Ireland, and move my UK SIM card into the new phone, would it just work straight away with my UK…

11-09-2013 05:18PM

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Louche Lad

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I have a Vodafone UK contract that I got with my phone some years ago.

The phone's starting to fall apart, but I want to keep the UK phone number if the phone completely stops working.

So if buy a "SIM-free" mobile here in Ireland, and move my UK SIM card into the new phone, would it just work straight away with my UK number?

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#2 11-09-2013 05:49PM

Davy

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Yes, you can put any sim card into a sim free phone, be it an irish one or a UK one. You may have to get some settings for the internet features to work correctly but that's easily sorted, and a lot of phones will do it automatically.

For your own info, the networks locks are different in the UK and ROI, so if you try put an irish network X sim into the same network in the UK it wont work.

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