Pilips C12.....

I can't get my orange or t mobile cards to work in my C12...what am I doing
wrong? .....

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:25:44 GMT, "From Jimbo's radio shack"
<jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>I can't get my orange or t mobile cards to work in my C12...what am I doing
>wrong? .....

Philips C12? Where did you dig that up from?

The Orange and T-Mobile networks operate on a radio frequency that the
Philips C12 can't use.

The C12 I had many years ago was also locked to the BTCellnet (now O2)
SIM it came with, which became obsolete when O2 stopped supporting its
unusual PAYG feature, which stored the value of credit on the phone
rather than at the network, as happens now.
--
Martin Jay

"From Jimbo's radio shack" <jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>I can't get my orange or t mobile cards to work in my C12...what am I doing
>wrong? .....
>

Ha-ha, the C12 was my very first mobile phone, £20 with £10 credit on it and
you could call 1 landline number for FREE (500mins allowance). I had the
same credit on it for months, I only got the mobile cos the Wife was
pregnant at the time and it was for emergencies only. I remember my brother
got his hacked for £50 and could call any number for free, they eventually
cut him off cos he was calling premium horse racing numbers. At one point
everyone I knew at the football had this phone with the free calls.

As someone has stated I'm sure they could only be used by BT Cellnet and
were 16k sims, where most new sim today are 32k+.

--
Gerry (The MOTH)
gerrymoth.vox.com

> At one point
> everyone I knew at the football had this phone with the free calls.

why does that not surprise me........also useful for bashing fellow
supporters over the head........

"From Jimbo's radio shack" <jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
>> At one point
>> everyone I knew at the football had this phone with the free calls.
>
> why does that not surprise me........also useful for bashing fellow
> supporters over the head........
>
>

Yeah it did weight a bit and was bl00dy ugly as well. In the good old days
no one worried about radiation from mobile phone, god my fingers used to
tingle if I held it near the antenna while making a call with the C12.

Wish I'd kept all my old phones, give it a few years and they'll be retro or
is the C12 retro already?

My brother still has one of them nokia slider phones used in the first
Matrix film, now that has to be retro now?

--
Gerry (The MOTH)
gerrymoth.vox.com

jim.gm4dhj@ntlworld.com declared for all the world to hear...
> I can't get my orange or t mobile cards to work in my C12...what am I doing
> wrong? .....

Trying.

If it's an old phillips c12 from the BT Cellnet pay and go best friend
tarrif it won't work with anything other than the SIM it came with.
Since O2 switched them all off several years ago you'd do well to give
up.

Also, IIRC the C12 was single band 900MHz, so only good for O2 and
Vodafone.
--
Regards
Jon

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:28:35 -0000, "Gerry \(The MOTH\)" <Gerry
(TheMOTH)> wrote:

>My brother still has one of them nokia slider phones used in the first
>Matrix film, now that has to be retro now?

Except the one used in the Matrix film was a prop. Not a real phone.
Similar to the Nokia 8110 and the 7110 but not the same.