Changing Phones

polymaff

matelodave said:

If your mobile phone signal is pretty poor with O2 have you thought of trying another provider EE, Vodafone or Three (or one of the cheapies) quite often the coverage can be either significantly better (or possibly worse) but the cost of a cheap paygo sim to try it out might be worth it rather than soldiering on with a poor signal from O2.

My main mobile phone is on Three but I keep an old phone for backup with a 1p mobile sim (EE) for places where Three is a bit iffy. Peace of mind for £30 a year

Trying several mobile phones, the only networks receivable here are O2 and Vodaphone - so it is a 50/50 that I'm on the best signal already!  Mention of EE makes me shudder. Several years ago they were foolish enough to give about 40 phones to someone using my, then, company's ID.   Did they get in touch (using details at Companies House)? No.  First we heard was a court summons.  They were extremely unhelpful. Callbacks from their fraud department were promised but never made.  Took about 6 stressfull months to get them to back off.

The back-up here is my wife's Nokia - somewhat up-market compared to my Sony Ericsson T280i.  That Nokia is part of her personality - at least the little that has been left after a big brain tumour robbed her of her profession, balance and speech.

The excellent response to this thread - many thanks - leads me to suspect that I misunderstood O2's statements.  Perhaps they meant  that they'd send me a "3-in-1", and that I must ensure that only one of the three sims is in a powered-up phone at any one time?

eDicky

polymaff said:

matelodave said:

If your mobile phone signal is pretty poor with O2 have you thought of trying another provider EE, Vodafone or Three (or one of the cheapies) quite often the coverage can be either significantly better (or possibly worse) but the cost of a cheap paygo sim to try it out might be worth it rather than soldiering on with a poor signal from O2.

My main mobile phone is on Three but I keep an old phone for backup with a 1p mobile sim (EE) for places where Three is a bit iffy. Peace of mind for £30 a year

The excellent response to this thread - many thanks - leads me to suspect that I misunderstood O2's statements.  Perhaps they meant  that they'd send me a "3-in-1", and that I must ensure that only one of the three sims is in a powered-up phone at any one time?

There will be only one SIM, comprising the three sizes as inner inserts that are easily pressed out to the size required.

polymaff

eDicky said:

polymaff said:

matelodave said:

If your mobile phone signal is pretty poor with O2 have you thought of trying another provider EE, Vodafone or Three (or one of the cheapies) quite often the coverage can be either significantly better (or possibly worse) but the cost of a cheap paygo sim to try it out might be worth it rather than soldiering on with a poor signal from O2.

My main mobile phone is on Three but I keep an old phone for backup with a 1p mobile sim (EE) for places where Three is a bit iffy. Peace of mind for £30 a year

The excellent response to this thread - many thanks - leads me to suspect that I misunderstood O2's statements.  Perhaps they meant  that they'd send me a "3-in-1", and that I must ensure that only one of the three sims is in a powered-up phone at any one time?

There will be only one SIM, comprising the three sizes as inner inserts that are easily pressed out to the size required.

Not like this, then?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01E7JI218/

eDicky

polymaff said:

eDicky said:

polymaff said:

matelodave said:

If your mobile phone signal is pretty poor with O2 have you thought of trying another provider EE, Vodafone or Three (or one of the cheapies) quite often the coverage can be either significantly better (or possibly worse) but the cost of a cheap paygo sim to try it out might be worth it rather than soldiering on with a poor signal from O2.

My main mobile phone is on Three but I keep an old phone for backup with a 1p mobile sim (EE) for places where Three is a bit iffy. Peace of mind for £30 a year

The excellent response to this thread - many thanks - leads me to suspect that I misunderstood O2's statements.  Perhaps they meant  that they'd send me a "3-in-1", and that I must ensure that only one of the three sims is in a powered-up phone at any one time?

There will be only one SIM, comprising the three sizes as inner inserts that are easily pressed out to the size required.

Not like this, then?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01E7JI218/

The image used is misleading - there will be only one core, '3 in 1', as mentioned in the item description:

The SIM card we'll send you will be a Multi SIM, which holds all three SIM card formats (standard, micro and nano) in one.

O2 would probably send you a PAYG SIM for free.

Rodders53

It'll be like this

https://3g.co.uk/guides/sim-card-sizes 

You push out the two smaller sizes, if required, from the full size and that's pushed out of a credit card bit of plastic.