Cell Phones in Great Britain - Locking & Roaming

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Locking & Roaming

DA, Manchester

2007-12-22, 10:33 pm

As you know UK SIMs used in UK will not roam to the other 3 carriers,
whether or not handset is locked, but abroad will use best signal.

So, if cost not important, but always having signal is [country
doctor, even road rep selling high value], then it would make sense,
would it not, to get a French, Irish, Dutch etc phone & contract, and
over here it would roam all four networks at will. Even if talk was
=A350 an hour more than local tariffs, that could easily be worthwhile

Do the emergency and security services and cabinwt ministers and the
like have special SIMs/contracts that roam as I have suggested? Why
don't the carriers sell such contracts, they cross-settle airtime mins/
bytes anyway.

Dave

Usenet User

2007-12-23, 4:33 am

On 22 Dec, 23:41, "DA, Manchester" <adather...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As you know UK SIMs used in UK will not roam to the other 3 carriers,
> whether or not handset is locked, but abroad will use best signal.
>
> So, if cost not important, but always having signal is [country
> doctor, even road rep selling high value], then it would make sense,
> would it not, to get a French, Irish, Dutch etc phone & contract, and
> over here it would roam all four networks at will. Even if talk was
> =A350 an hour more than local tariffs, that could easily be worthwhile
>
> Do the emergency and security services and cabinwt ministers and the
> like have special SIMs/contracts that roam as I have suggested? Why
> don't the carriers sell such contracts, they cross-settle airtime mins/
> bytes anyway.
>
> Dave

It would take away competition between the cariers -- Ofcom wouldn't
allow it.

R. Mark Clayton

2007-12-23, 7:33 am

"DA, Manchester" <adatherton@gmail.com> wrote in message
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As you know UK SIMs used in UK will not roam to the other 3 carriers,
whether or not handset is locked, but abroad will use best signal.

So, if cost not important, but always having signal is [country
doctor, even road rep selling high value], then it would make sense,
would it not, to get a French, Irish, Dutch etc phone & contract, and
over here it would roam all four networks at will. Even if talk was
£50 an hour more than local tariffs, that could easily be worthwhile

Do the emergency and security services and cabinwt ministers and the
like have special SIMs/contracts that roam as I have suggested? Why
don't the carriers sell such contracts, they cross-settle airtime mins/
bytes anyway.

Dave

They should roam for emergency service purposes.

There was a company offering SIM's from Liechtenstein.

Not cheap for outbound (but reasonable) and incoming involves an
international call and it will roam on 4/5 networks in the UK (all the GSM
ones).

I don't need one where I live, but if I were a vet in the Scottish Highlands
then I would have one and a proper (high power) built in car phone to put it
in. Then if you do manage to slide off the road into a ditch in the middle
of nowhere and a snow drift starts building up outside you have a fairly
good chance of being able to summon help.

Paulg0

2007-12-26, 10:33 pm

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> I don't need one where I live, but if I were a vet in the Scottish
> Highlands then I would have one and a proper (high power) built in car
> phone to put it in. Then if you do manage to slide off the road into a
> ditch in the middle of nowhere and a snow drift starts building up outside
> you have a fairly good chance of being able to summon help.
>

Product with a +44 number is available at www.sim4travel.co.uk, (think the
number is Isle of Man network based), i had one of these a while ago, the
only annoying thing was that incoming caller id showed as witheld

Paul

andy

2007-12-27, 12:33 pm

On Dec 27, 2:53=A0am, "Paulg0" <zd...@ukgateway.net.spamtrap> wrote:
> "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclay...@btinternet.com> wrote in messagenews:YJid=
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> Product with a +44 number is available atwww.sim4travel.co.uk, (think the
> number is Isle of Man network based), i had one of these a while ago, the
> only annoying thing was that incoming caller id showed as witheld
>
> Paul

Sim4travel resell United Mobile, originally responsible for the
Liechtenstein SIMs, and since this summer also with a Jersey numbered
SIM

Isle of Man numbered SIMs are available from ekit; other former IoM
SIMs are offline at the moment and some resellers have offered
replacements

or there is Xfonemobile/Swiftnet with its own UK numbers, or Callblue
also with Jersey numbers

and rumours of 2 to 4 more soon

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