Mobile Banter - UK Mobile Phones

BT Cellnet / O2 Pay Up Front For Life (PUFFL)

Rashid L — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:07:25 GMT

I'm looking to buy this contract if anyone is selling, please let me know. I would like this for my kids, (as paying the PAYG topups is costing too much).
Thanks

Sending messages online

Rad — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:06:11 GMT

I want to be able to send bulk messages online and specify the sender of
the messages. It will only be an average of 1 message per month sent to
around 20 people.

Obviously because of the low value messages I only need to topup with
about £15 per year. I don't want to use any sites offering free text
messages because it's for business purposes and needs to look
professional and comply with DPA.

Can anyone suggest a site that would do this?

Nokia 7230 on O2 PAYG

Brian W[_2_] — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:25:07 GMT

Got one of these phones recently, it came with firmware 5.71. Firmware 6.90
is now available, however I can't download it, either from the phone or
using Nokia software updater. O2 said to contact Nokia, Nokia say to contact
service provider!

Is there anywhere I can get the new software? Why would updating appear to
be disabled on this phone? My partner has an unlocked one and it does allow
updating.

Cancelling my mobile contract for international departure

MaximeV — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:40:32 GMT

Hi,
I am a French guy coming to London for 10 months and, before taking a new mobile contract with one of the British mobile brands (which are usually for 18 or 24 months), I was wondering if, like what we have here in France, I could terminate my contract after 10 months without paying penalties on the basis of my return to France.
Do you know anything concerning this, please?
Thank you very much,
Max

Ugg Classic Tall Boots,http://www.uggsgoods.com/, free shipping,Sale:$122.00, no taxes

goods uggs — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:38:33 GMT

UGG Classic Tall Boots
http://www.uggsgoods.com/
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Ugg Classic Tall Boots Chestnut
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from genuine... $190.00 Sale: $115.90
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Ugg Classic Tall Boots Chocolate
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can this be done?

DickJones@OCP.com — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:17:39 GMT

Port a Number from a PAYG SIM to a PAYG 3G USIM on the the same
Network*?
*Orange

new asda bundles

Stephen Hammond[_3_] — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:04:48 GMT

http://www.asdamobile.com/compare_tariffs.html#

�25 for unlimited calls and texts seems quite good to meeeeeee !

Everything Everywhere - T-Orange day: 5th October

Martin Jay — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:19:06 GMT

:

----- Begin Quote -----

British customers of France Telecom's Orange and Deutsche Telekom's
T-Mobile will be able to roam across each other's UK networks from
October, the new joint venture of the two companies said.

Everything Everywhere, Britain's biggest mobile operator since a
merger took effect in July, said on Friday customers would be able to
opt in to switching networks whenever their signal was low, starting
from October 5.

From early next year, once glitches are ironed out, switching to the
best of the two signals will become automatic, Everything Everywhere's
Chief Executive Tom Alexander told journalists in London.

"It will be just as though the phone is roaming abroad, but in the
UK," he said.

----- End Quote -----
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Martin Jay

Sony Ericsson C510.

DickJones@OCP.com — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:17:07 GMT

Is it HSDPA?
Also what does the G icon mean when connectected to the internet, 3G?

cherry call doesn't work on Orange pay as you go :(

Stephen Hammond[_3_] — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:25:45 GMT

http://www.cherry-call.co.uk/faq.jsp

I can't dial the 25p per minute number :(

Stephen

UMA with Orange

Les Desser — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:38:33 GMT

<http://business.orange.co.uk/home/so...services/netwo
rk-and-connectivity/coverage-solutions/uma>

"Help your employees stay connected with enhanced network coverage at
home. We've added UMA technology to some of our phones to boost their
signal."

Basically, it uses your own home wireless network and Internet to
seamlessly route mobile calls.

Would anyone know if this would also work if used abroad?

Seems like a simple solution for using an Orange mobile abroad -
obviously limited to staying at a fixed location.

See below for a write-up from PC Pro

<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/360...lackberry-call
s-over-wi-fi>

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Les Desser
(The Reply-to address IS valid)

which is best ?

tomm[_2_] — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:47:59 GMT

Samsung tocco ultra or nokia 5800

BT mobile phone - how do I get the balance

Les Desser — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:40:01 GMT

I have been given a BT mobile but it seems BT mobiles do not exist!

I can find virtually nothing on the web nor on the BT web site about BT
mobiles. Plenty about mobile Internet but nothing about phones.

Calling 150 just gives you the regular land line 150.

I want to find out my free minutes left on the monthly account.

Thanks.
--
Les Desser
(The Reply-to address IS valid)

Number porting nightmare

Mark Scott — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:25:06 GMT

Why is porting a number so bl**dy difficult?

I took out an O2 Simplicity contract for my son when he was too young do
do this in his own right. Now that he is old enough, he naturally wants
to have his own name on the contract. Apparently this is not possible.
The number (account) can't be transferred to any other name, ostensibly
because of credit checking concerns. However they can check him and
accept him for a new account, no problem.

Their next suggestion was that I could ask for a PAC code and he could
use that to transfer the old number to his new account and SIM. So I did
that, and now we learn that they won't allow the port because "the names
are not the same."

In the course of all this it appears I may also have committed myself to
a further 12 months of the original Simplicity contract which of course I
don't want.

FFS O2, get a clue.

Remote villages in Ceredigion plan to build phone masts

Richard W. Jones[_2_] — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:17:32 GMT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-11141987

Remote villages in Ceredigion plan to build phone masts

Remote communities with no mobile phone coverage are planning to build
their own cellular masts in one of the first projects of its type in
Wales.

A community group in the Tregaron area, in Ceredigion, intends to
lease them back to phone companies, which had seen the area as
commercially unsustainable.

Masts are planned in the villages of Ystrad Meurig and Llanddewi-
Brefi, while a third is set for Tregaron.

The group is to apply for a �150,000 grant to help pay for the first
one.

Duncan Taylor, chair of the Ger-y-Gors Community Forum, said residents
and businesses in the remote area of Ceredigion had learned to live
without a mobile signal, but were "fed up" with it.

Mr Taylor, from Pontrhydfendigaid, near Tregaron, said his mobile
phone cost him �10 per year, but he had never used it in his signal
"dead spot" village.

Mr Taylor said: "We believe this is an important social economic
project that will benefit our community for many years to come. It
will give peace of mind to the local population and the many visitors
who use trails in the rural area where no land-line is available.

"It will bring fast and reliable broadband to a farming community
where government returns are increasingly reliant on broadband
connectivity. Many of our venues offering conference facilities are
also currently losing business due to the problems associated with the
lack of signal.

"Major cellular providers have indicated that leasing space on the
masts is commercially viable for them, whereas providing masts of
their own wasn't."

Mr Taylor said income from the leases would help pay for the
maintenance and the day-to-day running costs of the masts, which will
be owned and operated by a non-profit-making company.

He added: "It seems ridiculous in an era of mobile-led technology that
communities such as ours cannot use mobile phones.

"It is restrictive and difficult for people, especially farmers and
the emergency services."

Llyr Jones, manager of the Bont Pavilion venue in Pontrhydfendigaid,
said poor mobile phone coverage was "holding back" the business.

"The only complaint we get from customers, clients and visitors is
about the lack of mobile phone coverage," he said.

"A few weeks ago we hosted a JRR Tolkien festival and we had people
here from all over the world cut off from the outside world. They all
had to use the village telephone kiosk to make calls.

"The masts will give a huge boost to the area. We will be able to
compete with larger venues because at the moment it's holding us
back."

Two local farms have been selected as the sites for the new masts.

The forum is set to apply for a �150,000 grant from the Welsh Assembly
Government, which will help pay for the first mast in Ystrad Meurig.

It is hoped that will be working by the end of next year, with the
following two masts in Llanddewi-Brefi and Tregaron, which has limited
coverage, planned over the next three to five years.

The group recently received a �4,300 grant from the Communities First
Trust Fund to pay for a second cellular mast survey.

The fund is managed by Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA), and
has funded more than 10,000 community projects in Wales' most
economically deprived areas since it was launched in 2002.