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Hi, I am a French guy coming to London for 10 months and, before taking a new mobile contract with one of the British mobile brands (which are usually for 18 or 24 months), I was wondering if, like what we have here in France, I could terminate my contract after 10 months without paying penalties...

I'm looking to buy this contract if anyone is selling, please let me know. I would like this for my kids, (as paying the PAYG topups is costing too much). Thanks -- Rashid L

As no one else has mentioned it yet, i will. New GiffGaff Labs goodybag 2p calls,1p texts, for £5 For just £5, get 2p calls and 1p texts to UK mobiles and landlines for a month For example, for £15 (£10 credit + £5 giffgaff labs), you'll get 500 UK mins. Giffgaff's experimental goodybag is...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6823DE20100903: ----- Begin Quote ----- British customers of France Telecom's Orange and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile will be able to roam across each other's UK networks from October, the new joint venture of the two companies said. Everything Everywhere,...

I want to be able to send bulk messages online and specify the sender of the messages. It will only be an average of 1 message per month sent to around 20 people. Obviously because of the low value messages I only need to topup with about £15 per year. I don't want to use any sites offering...

I have been given a BT mobile but it seems BT mobiles do not exist! I can find virtually nothing on the web nor on the BT web site about BT mobiles. Plenty about mobile Internet but nothing about phones. Calling 150 just gives you the regular land line 150. I want to find out my free minutes...

Got a friend who recently purchased a Nokia 1600 on a Tesco PAYG tariff ... Googling tells me this is a DCT4 handset, so should be unlockable quite easy via some software downloadable to my PC. Is this correct ? ISTR that there were 'variations' and some DCT4 models were a little bit trickier to...

Got one of these phones recently, it came with firmware 5.71. Firmware 6.90 is now available, however I can't download it, either from the phone or using Nokia software updater. O2 said to contact Nokia, Nokia say to contact service provider! Is there anywhere I can get the new software? Why...

http://business.orange.co.uk/home/soletrader/products-and-services/netwo rk-and-connectivity/coverage-solutions/uma "Help your employees stay connected with enhanced network coverage at home. We've added UMA technology to some of our phones to boost their signal." Basically, it uses your own...

I used my computer to access the Internet via my mobile for for a couple of weeks during August. For the first 15 days the charges appear to have been reasonable although I can't see the detail. On the 23rd of August the internet access stopped working in the evening. In the morning I got a...

Is it HSDPA? Also what does the G icon mean when connectected to the internet, 3G?

Samsung tocco ultra or nokia 5800

Anyone able to point to some software for this (a cable less solution) please.

I'm trying to unlock my wife's old Nokia 3310 so that she can use an Easymobile sim. I found a website which gives you an unlocking code which I entered on the phone (with the sim removed). I then got a message saying "Sim Unrestricted). Great. It's worked I thought. But then when I put the sim in...

Port a Number from a PAYG SIM to a PAYG 3G USIM on the the same Network*? *Orange

This may be a simplistic question for the group, but is there much difference in performance between a cheap and an expensive handset? Obviously there is a big difference in functionality and features, such as camera, MP3 player, internet capability etc but does the handset have much influence on...

http://www.asdamobile.com/compare_tariffs.html# £25 for unlimited calls and texts seems quite good to meeeeeee !

http://www.cherry-call.co.uk/faq.jsp I can't dial the 25p per minute number :( Stephen

I need to find a way to unlock a Motorola M3588 from (from O2) IMEI 449174-07-709927-5, because O2 stop supporting this at end of June. I know it's an ancient phone, but the folks like it's big buttons and it does everything they want - it's just for use in case of emergency. I've got them a new...

Hi, A few years ago I bought some land line phones that copied the names and numbers from a mobile sim, which was useful for caller display. I bought a corded BT relate 2100 and a DECT BT 6210. The thing is that they don't work with current sims but do work with old sims. I guess something must...