Tesco Phone/O2 Sim?

simoni

Hi i beleive that tesco use the O2 network, i was wondering if my O2 sim would work in a new tesco mobile phone without having to have it unlocked?

Any one know?

cheers Sam

bagand96

Yes it should work no problems. Tesco Mobile is run off O2, Tesco do not have their own operators code, they use O2 so the phone won't be able to distinguish.

Swifty_3

We tried a new O2 sim in an existing Tesco phone Nokia 1100 and it didn't work, we had to get it unlocked in the end. Not sure if this is the same for all Tesco phones but it was for ours.

Hunnymonster

It's totally normal sadly - because the Mobile Network ID of O2 is different to that of Tesco (even though they're on the same physical network). Easy to get a Nokia unlocked for free though.

save'n'spend

You can put a Tesco sim in an O2 phone, I've got a Tesco sim in an old phillips c12 bt cellnet u phone, it even comes up with 'bt cellnet tesco' on the screen, I even topped up the tesco sim with an O2 voucher which worked fine! Tesco runs off O2.