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Greggy
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How can they find out what phne ya using though?
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RLP06
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On 2009-06-25 21:31:53, Greggy wrote:
How can they find out what phne ya using though?
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All phones have an IMEI, which is like a serial number, they can look that up on a table and realize its not an iphone.
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masseur
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yeah, but I'm guessing they don't do that.
I put my contract SIM into my new 3GS and took that payg sim and put it into my Nokia 5800
the O2 system certainly realised that I hadn't used that sim in that phone, but rather than block me, or text me saying I was using the sim innapropriately, they actually sent me several texts to configure the phone wap/mms/mobile internet settings
that suggests to me that their system doesn't look out for iphone sims in non-iphone phones
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RLP06
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On 2009-06-26 11:03:56, masseur wrote:
yeah, but I'm guessing they don't do that.
I put my contract SIM into my new 3GS and took that payg sim and put it into my Nokia 5800
the O2 system certainly realised that I hadn't used that sim in that phone, but rather than block me, or text me saying I was using the sim innapropriately, they actually sent me several texts to configure the phone wap/mms/mobile internet settings
that suggests to me that their system doesn't look out for iphone sims in non-iphone phones
There have definately been reports of people getting text messages saying they need to put the sim back in an iphone, most get at least 3-4 months of usage out of it before getting a warning.
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masseur
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fair enough, I didn't manage to find any comments via google for people that had an issue like this
seems a bit hit and miss though when O2 clearly have a sure fire way of trapping such usage the first time another phone fires up with the iphone payg sim in it
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imazz
Joined: Sep 13, 2005
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I have read of people using them in broadband dongles and being cut off. Here for instance:-
http://groups.google.co.uk/gr[....]thread/29c20f53a508e081?hl=en# |
masseur
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hmm. but they would do that with any SIM being used in a dongle where the SIM doesn't have an appropriate data plan for PC or tethering usage
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imazz
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Good point. I haven't read about anyone using it in a phone being cut off. |
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Posted: 2009-06-25 21:31
