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nokia phone on meteor network?

  • 29-04-2006 06:15PM
    #1
    Framed10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭


    Hi I was looking at buying a nokia 6060 in CPW.
    This phone is only on the meteor network.
    Im currently with O2 and
    dont really want to switch to meteor network as I use O2s email and free web text alot in work and if Im away so it saves me on the texting.
    Is it possible for me to unlock form meteor network and continue with O2?
    thanks for the help


Comments

  • #2
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Post in http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=304061 and see if anyone can unlock it - proberly the best place to check.


  • #3
    Bamboozled
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Bamboozled


    If it comes with a free sim card and with the free credit that usually accompanies said sim card, then you must use 20 euro worth of that credit before taking the sim card out. Otherwise they block the phone.

    Use the 20 credit then take the card out and get it unlocked.

    Its part of the terms and conditions of accepting a phone from meteor that you will continue to use the phone and card on their network. We found that out the hard way when we were left without our two phones over xmas last year.


  • #4
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Bamboozled wrote:
    If it comes with a free sim card and with the free credit that usually accompanies said sim card, then you must use 20 euro worth of that credit before taking the sim card out. Otherwise they block the phone.

    They block the SIM. Not the phone itself.


  • #5
    Bamboozled
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Bamboozled


    No matter who's sim was in the phone it wouldnt recognise anything. I had a second metor sim which was current and in credit going in a separate phone and it wouldnt work. Had a vodafone one too and it wouldnt work in the phones.

    If it was just the sim thats blocked, how could that affect the other ones not working in it? Their support told us it was the phone being blocked so if you can explain to me how it was only the sim i'd appreciate it.
    Thanks


  • #6
    dingding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭dingding


    I think you get free web texts with meteot. I am post pay and I have 30 permonth


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  • #7
    Thirdfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,105 ✭✭✭Thirdfox


    HavoK wrote:
    They block the SIM. Not the phone itself.

    I've had my phone blocked when I put in a Vodafone sim into a meteor phone (I ran out of credit on my sim :o ) Had to ring them - they said don't put in foreign sims(!)

    But after a month (or five!) I put in a different sim and it's fine.


  • #8
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Bamboozled wrote:
    No matter who's sim was in the phone it wouldnt recognise anything. I had a second metor sim which was current and in credit going in a separate phone and it wouldnt work. Had a vodafone one too and it wouldnt work in the phones.

    If it was just the sim thats blocked, how could that affect the other ones not working in it? Their support told us it was the phone being blocked so if you can explain to me how it was only the sim i'd appreciate it.
    Thanks

    That's the first I've heard of that. I change phones maybe once a month on average, some second hand but some new. When I get a new phone on Meteor I just toss out the sim that comes with the new phone and use the same one I've been using for about 5 years now - never had a problem with the dozen or so phones I've done this with!


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