Colin Wilson <REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgroup@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.c o.uk>
wrote:

> I'm with CPW and recently moved to an alternative tariff (some of you
> might have noticed it in an earlier thread).
>
> One of the things that came up was the lack of memory for text
> messages on the sim cards we already had (about 4 years old) and new
> sim cards were received a few days ago which should have kept the same
> number etc.
>
> The sim cards came up as unregistered at the time, but as the new
> contract was only supposed to start today, I wasn't too concerned.
>
> I tried one of the new sims again this evening, and again i'm getting
> "unregistered sim".
>
> I believe it's a new O2 3G sim (O2 markings) - does anyone know if i'm
> missing something dumb like needing to rediscover the network or
> something ? (i'm seeing all the 4 main operators, but trying to
> connect to the O2 network from the options gets me nowhere)
>
> Thanks in advance for any clues, short of me getting on the phone to
> them again tomorrow :-}

Are the old sims still active, you may now need to ring O2 to activate
the new sim cards & de-activate the old ones.
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Jon B
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