What do I do with new sim card?????

blossom30

Hi Everyone, My free sim card arrived from orange this morning and I want to put it into my alcatel phone which has a virgin sim card please anyone....how do I change this phone to orange network.I would appreciate your help

grumbler

You have to unlock your phone. If you spent enough money on Virgin (about £30?) they will unlock the phone for free AFAIK. Otherwise search this board or pay about £10 at your local market for unlocking.
Then you can use your phone on any network (besides Three probably).

robnye

some phones aren't locked, trying swapping the sim card over.

power of the phone,
open the casing
remove the battery (not always neccesary, depends on phone)
remove virgin sim card
insert orange sim card
replace battery (if need be)
close casing
switch on phone

if it can find the orange network, then your phone is ok, if it cant then you will need to get it unlocked