Will asking for a different sized sim card stop my contract?

suziemoon

I'm with 3 and currently have a HTC Desire which has a mini sim card, I want to buy an I Phone 5 which takes a nano sim card. I'm on unlimited internet paying £13 per month with 3 if I ask for a nano sim card will that mean that 3 can stop my contract?

Ian011

No. A phone number can be transferred to a different SIM, same size or otherwise, at any time with no effect on the contract.

If you're changing to a BlackBerry or to an iPhone sometimes the contract needs amending for the data to work properly.

d123

suziemoon wrote: »

I'm with 3 and currently have a HTC Desire which has a mini sim card, I want to buy an I Phone 5 which takes a nano sim card. I'm on unlimited internet paying £13 per month with 3 if I ask for a nano sim card will that mean that 3 can stop my contract?

No, but be aware that Three can remove the old plan at any time (and are actively doing so to customers on the older plans at present).

They only have to give you 30 days notice and your PAC if you don't want to change.

Though as said, asking for a new SIM card won't do anything to them moving (or not moving) you onto an alternative tariff.

Ian011 wrote: »

If you're changing to a BlackBerry or to an iPhone sometimes the contract needs amending for the data to work properly.

Blackberry yes, but I change to and from an iPhone on a regular basis (and have done so since the original iPhone 2G) and have never heard of that, I also was never informed of that being needed while working for a network.

I would therefore have to conclude that is incorrect.

Techhead_2

d123 wrote: »

No, but be aware that Three can remove the old plan at any time (and are actively doing so to customers on the older plans at present).

They only have to give you 30 days notice and your PAC if you don't want to change.

Though as said, asking for a new SIM card won't do anything to them moving (or not moving) you onto an alternative tariff.



Blackberry yes, but I change to and from an iPhone on a regular basis (and have done so since the original iPhone 2G) and have never heard of that, I also was never informed of that being needed while working for a network.

I would therefore have to conclude that is incorrect.

It's not incorrect. Some providers will require you to be on an iPhone tariff. This is for various reasons (eg support for Visual Voicemail)

gingerdad

i just cut my daughters sim to fit, been fine no problems all the features on the iphone work as if it was an iphone contract

d123

Techhead wrote: »

It's not incorrect. Some providers will require you to be on an iPhone tariff. This is for various reasons (eg support for Visual Voicemail)

There haven't been "iPhone tariffs" for years. Your example of visual voicemail is a simple feature on the account activated by a text to 150 (in the case of EE) by the subscriber. You can be on any contract tariff and get VV.

That's without even mentioning that Three has no iPhone specific features like VV on their network...

Which network did/do you work for?

Techhead_2

d123 wrote: »

There haven't been "iPhone tariffs" for years. Your example of visual voicemail is a simple feature on the account activated by a text to 150 (in the case of EE) by the subscriber. You can be on any contract tariff and get VV.

That's without even mentioning that Three has no iPhone specific features like VV on their network...

Which network did/do you work for?

It's plainly nonsense that there are no iPhone tariffs . As I said in my post Visual Voicemail is just an example and I used the phrase "Some providers". As you will be aware, EE typically add features to accounts using add-ons - but that doesn't mean it is true for all providers.

(Not that it makes any difference but my first job in the mobile field was with Racal Telecom when I was fresh out of university)

d123

Techhead wrote: »

It's plainly nonsense that there are no iPhone tariffs .

Can you link to these iPhone specific tariffs (presumably on Three like the OP is)?

As I said in my post Visual Voicemail is just an example and I used the phrase "Some providers". As you will be aware, EE typically add features to accounts using add-ons - but that doesn't mean it is true for all providers.

This thread is actually about Three, what is the relevance to your mythical examples? What does VV even have to do with Three? Could you expand on these iPhone special features that are offered by Three?

(Not that it makes any difference but my first job in the mobile field was with Racal Telecom when I was fresh out of university)

Gee whiz, let me be impressed that you once worked for a company that eventually became Vodafone! Wow, the irrelevance of that is outstanding :rotfl:.

So tell me again, which mobile network did/do you work for?

Cycrow

Its also no longer the case with blackberry.

any Blackberry device running Blackberry 10 doesn't require a special data plan.

its only the older devices that do