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Can I use this Phone in Ireland?

  • 10-03-2018 12:47pm
    #1
    Umbra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    Thinking of buying the Motorola Moto G5S off of Amazon, and its product title is this:
    "Motorola Moto G5S 32GB UK Sim Free Smartphone"

    My question is:

    "Would I have to unlock this phone to use it with the "3 Ireland" network?
    Or would it work without any issues"

    Thanks!
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  • #2
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,956 ✭✭✭corkie


    Sim Free usually means it is not locked to any network, so should work with any sim you put in it!

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  • #3
    Umbra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Umbra


    corkie wrote: »
    Sim Free usually means it is not locked to any network, so should work with any sim you put in it!

    I'm just curious as to whether or not it is Sim Free for UK networks only, surly sim free means you can put any sim in regardless of country (if the phone is the European model)?


  • #4
    Umbra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Umbra


    Upon further investigation (Amazon Customer Questions) I have found that:

    The Motorola Moto G5S (from Amazon UK) can be used in Ireland

    Case closed,

    Thanks for your help!


  • #5
    MurmanskRun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭MurmanskRun


    Glad you're sorted, Umbra :) I was midway through this somewhat related reply...

    Two or three years ago, I popped into a Vodafone shop in Belfast to enquire as to whether I could simply pop a Vodafone UK PAYG sim card into my old out-of-contract Vodafone IRL-locked HTC 8 (Man, I loved that phone).

    Nope, they said.

    I didn't follow up the reasons why, but have always wondered if I was being played.


  • #6
    Umbra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Umbra


    MurmanskRun wrote: »
    Glad you're sorted, Umbra :) I was midway through this somewhat related reply...

    Two or three years ago, I popped into a Vodafone shop in Belfast to enquire as to whether I could simply pop a Vodafone UK PAYG sim card into my old out-of-contract Vodafone IRL-locked HTC 8 (Man, I loved that phone).

    Nope, they said.

    I didn't follow up the reasons why, but have always wondered if I was being played.

    That was the kind of stuff I was being wary about, I had a similar issue a good few years back. I bought a Vodafone Branded phone in the UK, brought it over to Ireland to find that I could only use a UK Vodafone sim, and the phone could not be unlocked! Why they do that kind of thing boggles me!!!


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