Mobile phones

digger · Post by **digger** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:52 pm

thanks for your replies guys. I’m still working on it with special help from Dalcassian behind the scenes

orangeanorak · Post by **orangeanorak** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:25 pm

Hi - I'm heading to Cvo for the first time this weekend for 2 weeks - family 6 - I bought two portuguese sims on ebay for about 12 euro total inc postage with no credit - got 2 vodaphone sims by return of post - i have two unlocked nokias - have tried these 2 sims out and they are picking up T mobile signal in Uk so hopefully they will work fine in Portugal

Need these for keeping cost down and RVing with rest of the family as I hate shopping and my better half loves it

looking forward to my break

Misty · Post by **Misty** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:00 pm

You can buy sim cards here in Portugal for €5 each! You can get most of them for that. I bought my vodaphone sim for €5. Then I bought an unlocked phone. Think I got them both from the PT shop in Algarve Shopping. Previous to that I got a very cheap Nokia with a TMN sim for about €70.

Lesley Jean · Post by **Lesley Jean** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:48 pm

OK, so I am being very dimm I know but can I go over this again as I am thinking of bringing my old phone out as a pay as you go Portuguese one.

I have a Nokia which was on my contract with Vodaphone. I changed phone company in UK to 3 and got a brand new phone which now has my old sim card in with my original phone number.

I looked on a site to unlock my old phone (which now does not have a sim card) but I thought it said I had to put in the phone number of the phone to unlock it. Well it doesn't have a number yet.

My idea is to get a pay as you go sim card in August when we come out, so basically........How do I unlock the phone??

Any help would be gratefully received.......Ta

steve · Post by **steve** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:06 pm

Some years ago I wanted to unlock my phone to use a Portuguese chip and the code was given to me by the service provider (then One-to-One) for a charge of about 15gbp.

There used to be plenty of people in the UK advertising phone unlocking but if you don't find anyone ask the people whose contract you had when you first bought the phone. If you change providers and the phone works though it would seem that it is not locked.

Steve

Michael Crane · Post by **Michael Crane** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:11 pm

In the UK there are literally hundreds of people who can unlock any mobile phone - most of them can be found at the Sunday markets and car-boot sales.

Lesley Jean · Post by **Lesley Jean** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:35 pm

Thanks, I said was being dim, it was the fact that I thought it had to have a sim with a number before you could unlock it. Technology......too much for me, as long as I can say hello and send texts that is about as much as I understand, typical woman...... I know..