o2 & T-mobile UK Phones - Esato archive

Posted by russtproof
Are phones issued by o2/T-mobile locked to the network? I know that Vodafone and Orange are. Is it hard to ask the network to unlock the phone, because what happens if I have two SIM cards from different networks and I want to use them both on that 'locked' phone?

Posted by Zycho
Recently acquired a brand new T610 on O2 and it was unlocked. I tried and tested my vurgin sim and my mates orange sim and all worked fine.

Posted by pethal
T-mobile locked their T610, but we can get it unlocked for 15Ł from them after one month.

Posted by russtproof
Oh ok, so o2 phones are (currently) unlocked when issued. As for T-mobile and presumably Voda/Orange require a fee to unlock. I see. Darn, ah well.

Thing is, I was wondering whether my non-UK Orange sim would work on a UK Voda issued phone (e.g. T610 - I WANT this phone..). I doubt it will because it's locked.

Man, I want the T610, bad! Will have to wait a while tho. *sigh*