Do Virgin sims work on T-Mobile phones?

djw1cked

Hi

I know this question has been asked before but those threads are over three months old so I'm not sure if they are still applicable.

Just want to know whether a Virgin sim card would work on a T-Mobile PAYG phone? When I put the Virgin Sim card into my brothers unlocked phone, it recognised T-Mobile so I'm presuming that it would work but I want to know for sure before I splash out.

Thanks

nibs

I bought my son a t mobile phone this week and his virgin sim worked straight away, but my '3' sim didn't. :j

utilitybroker

djw1cked wrote: »

I know this question has been asked before but those threads are over three months old so I'm not sure if they are still appicable

The answers are still the same. Nowt has changed.;)

djw1cked

Oh right, thanks. Three are a nightmare, thats the company I'm leaving lol. Cheap but not cheerful, there CS is dreadful.

emeraldbugle

Hubby's Virgin Sim works fine in T'Mobile's Nokia 6300 and a Nokia 6500, he is moving to T-Mobile. The chap in the T-Mobile shop said that there shouldn't be a prob with the Nokia phones.

gaming_guy

i can confirm this also works in SE phones.

the reason it works is that virgin use t-mobiles masts and network for coverage

jhp

gaming_guy wrote: »

the reason it works is that virgin use t-mobiles masts and network for coverage

So why dont T-Mob sims work in Virgin Phones ?

gaming_guy

jhp wrote: »

So why dont T-Mob sims work in Virgin Phones ?

because virgin have to pay t-mobile to use their network. if virgin sold phones that worked on t-mobile, they wouldn't make much money if they pay t-mobile a certain amount each month

Sid_Harper

technical reason: there are two 'depths' of locking, the virgin phones are locked at the deeper sub-net level, whereas T-mob's are at the higher network level (i.e. virgin phones are a sub-network of T-mobile, but not the other way around); any SIM that is on a piggy-back service to T-mobile will work in a T-mobile phone for that reason.