Not knowing a thing about gadgets .I read with interest the unlocking post .I have a blackberry curve 8 something or other .From Virgin .Just over £10 a month .But reception is totally crap here in our area .But after asking was told actually we are in a good area .Could be the buildings or the tree outside .Well trees would be outside !!!.Getting browser is crap and getting virgin page also crap .So after a long winded reason ,what would unlocking the phone actually do for me .Please don't shout i am a numpty and i am 61 years old .
Phone mobile numpty .
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unlocking the phone would allow you to use SIM cards from different operators on the phone (assuming it is locked to Virgin).
Providers lock their phones so you have to use their services as they sell the phone & hope to recoup the cost of it via charges such as texts & calls.
Providers lock their phones so you have to use their services as they sell the phone & hope to recoup the cost of it via charges such as texts & calls.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
I think Virgin mobile is rebranded T-mobile and the reception for (y)our street is poor. My wife wouldn't listen to me when she bought a T-mobile phone for our daughter and took it back the same day because of poor reception only to return home with the same model phone but on Virgin mobile and had the same problems. Katie was smitten by the only model of affordable 9for her) phone that was only available on the only network that didn't cover Parkland Crescent.
Unlocking the phone - take it down to the market or the Merrion Centre for unlocking and you can pick any network that takes your fancy.
O2 and Orange work well in our street and elsewhere for that matter.
The down side is that if you already have a contract with Virgin, you will also have to pay for the additional network charges on top so your £10 per month becomes, say, £20 per month.
If you are a light user, pay as you go might be the way to go.
Unlocking the phone - take it down to the market or the Merrion Centre for unlocking and you can pick any network that takes your fancy.
O2 and Orange work well in our street and elsewhere for that matter.
The down side is that if you already have a contract with Virgin, you will also have to pay for the additional network charges on top so your £10 per month becomes, say, £20 per month.
If you are a light user, pay as you go might be the way to go.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
blackberrys are hard work from my experiance but others will say differantly
Munchkin100
New Member
- Location
- The Chilterns
My Virgin phone worked fantastic at my home but as soon as I ventured anywhere near the South Coast it would transfer over to Jersey or France. Of course then if anyone tried to call me or I wanted to make a call it cost a fortune. Unlocked my phone at the local market and moved to Orange, works everywhere ive travelled since, including the south coast, with no probs. Im happy :-)
thomas
the tank engine
- Location
- Woking/Norwich
When did you buy it? With my contract phone I had to give the post codes I would use it at, and they confirmed it would work. I had 7 days to return it if I couldn't get signal, which I could. With t Mobile but i would imagine it's a legal thing.
Give Virgin a phone and see what they'll do. If you can't get signal it's probably not fit for purpose, especially as now-a-days more and more people use their mobile phone more at home than when they're mobile.
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
T-mobile are separate from Virgin Mobile but often have similar 'dead areas' of reception
T-mobile and Orange now do network sharing to give better coverage.
