PAC CODE

TREVORCOLMAN

It may be a silly question but I am just about to ask orange to end my annual contract. I already have a sim card to go onto PAYG with the same company. Can anyone tell me what the PAC code does? Does it unlock the mobile so I can use another provider? I am going to use orange at the moment but may use another in the future.

Thanks

Trev

emc

Can anyone tell me what the PAC code does? Does it unlock the mobile so I can use another provider?

The pac code is used to transfer your existing number from Orange to a different network operator. You don't need a pac code if you are staying with Orange.

The pac code does not unlock the mobile, so the mobile will continue to be locked to Orange it it is locked at the moment.

cheapaschips_2

i did this on o2, you need to speak to customer services, then they put you onto the transfers team who co-relate one phone number to the other, make sure you arange it before the monthly service expires, cause they'll re-allocate it and you wont get it back.

loopy_lass

er, am i correct in thinking that even if you transfer your number from one provider to another you will get charged as if it were cross network minutes? or have i dreamt this?

loops

Russ66

It may be a silly question but I am just about to ask orange to end my annual contract.  I already have a sim card to go onto PAYG with the same company.  Can anyone tell me what the PAC code does?  Does it unlock the mobile so I can use another provider?  I am going to use orange at the moment but may use another in the future.

Thanks

Trev

When you give Orange their 30 days notice, they will send you a new sim card so that you can go on payg & keep the same no.

Your contract WILL NOT be terminated until you register the new payg card.

EG: You give notice, stop using your phone or put in a different sim but they will keep charging you line rental on the contract phone because the contract sim has not been de-activated & switched to new payg sim.

I ended up having to pay them an extra months line rental for a phone that was in my boy's toybox with no sim in it >:( >:( because I assumed that once the 30 days were up I would not be able to use the phone. . . . . . Not so, They did not terminate my contract because I did not register the payg sim.

You only need to request a pac code if you are leaving orange for another network.............. But you've said that you're staying with them for a while anyway.

HtH

TREVORCOLMAN

Thanks Russ, both me and other half have rang orange and given them exactly 30 days notice to terminate 12 month contract at the year point. We are both being sent PAYG sim cards which we will register on the day our contracts end thus going onto PAYG. I had already purchased 2 sim orange sim cards, however will use the free ones and try to sell the ones we have as they are still sealed.

Merry Christmas to all XX