o2 closing service for old phones

tightrs

today i have been notified by o2 that my philips c12 phone will not work from sometime next year and they want me to buy a newer phone from them to keep my number.surely the phone should be free anybody any ideas on how to get some sort of deal from o2 which we would both be happy with?

[Deleted User]

I've still got an old BTEasyLife phone. (Has anyone else still got one?) Mine's still got credit on with 02 and I use it as a contact number for work! That way I keep my other phone free for everyone else!

RoyRace

Why wont it work? It doesn't seem to make any sense to me.

gizmoleeds

This one has been posted dozens of times on here, but is still the cheapest decent phone around - and it's on o2:

http://shop.o2.co.uk/student/o2uk/jsp/handsets/viewHandsetDetails.jsp?prodID=consumer:NOK:6030:GROUP

notagain_3

tightrs wrote:

today i have been notified by o2 that my philips c12 phone will not work from sometime next year......

What a load of utter nonsense. Don't beleive this statement which seems to be designed to get you to buy a new phone.

gizmoleeds wrote:

but is still the cheapest decent phone around....

Only if you like Nokias, and its not cheap for a phone anyways.

ianonline

notagain wrote:

What a load of utter nonsense. Don't beleive this statement which seems to be designed to get you to buy a new phone.

Why do you say "utter nonsense" - is this just your opinion or based on some foundation :question:

Perhaps someone with an "inside knowledge" could enlighten us all as to whether this is true - personally, I can't see O2 lying about something like this. It is pretty much common knowledge that the current analogue TV signal is due to be switched off in the not-too-distant future so I can't see why it wouldn't be the case with mobile phones when most people have a digital handset these days anyway and the older analogue phones are pretty much obsolete. :think:

snowy1998

ianonline wrote:

It is pretty much common knowledge that the current analogue TV signal is due to be switched off in the not-too-distant future so I can't see why it wouldn't be the case with mobile phones when most people have a digital handset these days anyway and the older analogue phones are pretty much obsolete. :think:

I think maybe because analogue for mobile phones were switched off in 2001 may be a good reason if I recall correctly.

random456

ive still got a brick nokia from 1998 and that works fine with new sims?????

snowy1998

I think if it it GSM standard then it will still work, but I am no expert. :snow_laug