Help will a T-mobile sim work in a Virgin payg?

Princess_Coupon

I want to buy a Virgin EF61 payg handset to use my T-mobile contract sim in a few people have told me it'll work, anyone else know?

charlearose

most phones have to be unlocked - if its sim free then it would work on any network
i would also check the price of getting the phone unlocked it can vary from cheap to riduclous depending on the model of the phone

Princess_Coupon

charlearose wrote: »

most phones have to be unlocked - if its sim free then it would work on any network
i would also check the price of getting the phone unlocked it can vary from cheap to riduclous depending on the model of the phone

I understand about locked handsets the difference with my senario is that Virgin use the T-mobile network this is why I suspect it may work.
The phone is very cheap to buy and wouldn't be work paying more than £2/3 to unlock if it didn't work I'd just put it on ebay.

charlearose

didint know tmobile use virgin i know they use orange
just take the sim you want to use into the shop and put it in the phone see if it it will work
im sure i cant use a orange sim card in my tmobile phone at the moment

Princess_Coupon

charlearose wrote: »

didint know tmobile use virgin i know they use orange
just take the sim you want to use into the shop and put it in the phone see if it it will work
im sure i cant use a orange sim card in my tmobile phone at the moment

The phone is only online it's quite an old model

Scrounger

Unlikely to work as Virgin handsets are usually GID1 locked (as well as SP locked).

However, it should work the other way round (ie Virgin SIM in a T-mobile handset).

Scrounger

mrcamp

My Virgin UK sim worked in a tmobile USA locked handset.

noelphobic

charlearose wrote: »

didint know tmobile use virgin i know they use orange
just take the sim you want to use into the shop and put it in the phone see if it it will work
im sure i cant use a orange sim card in my tmobile phone at the moment

Tmobile don't use Virgin, Virgin use Tmobile (I think!)

mrochester

noelphobic wrote: »

Tmobile don't use Virgin, Virgin use Tmobile (I think!)

Correct! Phones are typically locked to the specific network they are sold for regardless of who actually provides the network infrastructure.