Will Orange make my phone useless?

paulcornwall

I have'nt been able to pay for my orange phone bill for 2 months, earlier last week calls from that sim where barred. My question is will by phone be barred if i fail to pay?

cifpower

They can't bar your phone unless it has been reported stolen. They will just bar your sim and prevent you from texting or making calls.

proplusplus

If you default on payments and continue to do so, at some (late) stage you are likely to have the IMEI blacklisted, yes. Orange are within their right to do this, and i think they do. can't tell you at waht stage, but probably after they've passed the debt to the bailiffs (which is often ~6-months from 1st defaulted payment)


proplusplus

DCFC79

paulcornwall wrote: »

I have'nt been able to pay for my orange phone bill for 2 months, earlier last week calls from that sim where barred. My question is will by phone be barred if i fail to pay?

can you not pay the bills or agree to pay X amount or see if they will move you to a lower tariff

PROLIANT

You can obtain software to change the IMEI number of the phone to prevent it being blacklisted as IME blacklist's are now shared between all UK service providers so moving it to another network will not work, flog the phone to some second-hand dealer and get rid, or as suggested find some software to hack the phone and change the IMEI number, shouldn't really be telling you this cos the "do-gooder" brigade will start blowing their whistle and telling tales to the site admin so act fast as you have two choices, change IMEI or sell phone and deal with the outstanding debt later. Good Luck.

DCFC79

Personnaly i wouldnt go down the route of chaning the phones IMEI number

PROLIANT

DCFC79 wrote: »

Personnaly i wouldnt go down the route of chaning the phones IMEI number

I agree however I was offering the OP an alternative method if he wasn't going to pay the bill.

esuhl

DCFC79 wrote: »

Personnaly i wouldnt go down the route of chaning the phones IMEI number

Neither would I (except for the sheer fun of proving I could do it) - changing IMEI numbers was made illegal a few years ago.

proplusplus

PROLIANT wrote: »

You can obtain software to change the IMEI number of the phone to prevent it being blacklisted as IME blacklist's are now shared between all UK service providers so moving it to another network will not work, flog the phone to some second-hand dealer and get rid, or as suggested find some software to hack the phone and change the IMEI number, shouldn't really be telling you this cos the "do-gooder" brigade will start blowing their whistle and telling tales to the site admin so act fast as you have two choices, change IMEI or sell phone and deal with the outstanding debt later. Good Luck.

advocating IMEI changing is a very odd suggestion. You might as well tell him to rob a bank.

it's not as easy as you think to change the IMEI on phone models past the DCT-3 stage as most have a hardware component-change required.

proplusplus

PROLIANT

proplusplus wrote: »

advocating IMEI changing is a very odd suggestion. You might as well tell him to rob a bank.

it's not as easy as you think to change the IMEI on phone models past the DCT-3 stage as most have a hardware component-change required.

proplusplus

Tell, Tell, Tell, nuaghty, naughty...and your point is? I DO NOT GIVE A TOSS! :rotfl:

lovelynikki

phone woun't be barred only sim card will be barred to stop the service.