Potentially stupid questions

breadmonkey

I'm getting my new phone tomorrow (hopefully).

1)Do I need a new SIM for a 3G phone?
2)If so, will they send me a new SIM.
3)Will I be charged for getting a new SIM with my current number.
4)Is it SIM or Sim or sim?:)

aidan_walsh

1) You shouldn't, unless you are changing network.
2) You would most likely have to buy a phone with one, or buy one seperate. I highly doubt they will give you one free.
3) From what I have experienced, if you buy a new card, they may transfer your details to it for free. However, this may vary from store to store.
4) SIM - Subscriber Identity Module

Pythia

breadmonkey wrote:

I'm getting my new phone tomorrow (hopefully).

1)Do I need a new SIM for a 3G phone?
2)If so, will they send me a new SIM.
3)Will I be charged for getting a new SIM with my current number.
4)Is it SIM or Sim or sim?:)

If you have an old sim (says Eircell on it), then you'll need a new one. This replacement sim is free. It's done in store if you need it.

breadmonkey

Ah Jesus, an Eircell SIM??!!

Out of curiosity, would an Eircell SIM still work?

chrislad

Yup, all Eircell SIMs automatically transferred to Vodafone Network. They still say Eircell though which is pretty retro.

parsi

Not necessarily..if you still have the phone that you had when eircell went to vodafone you may have accepted the option to have the phone reprogrammed so that the old eircel id was displayed as vodafone... so for example in the old days your old sim was eircell and this had the underlying id of irl-01 then the phones at that tme would translate it to "eircell" . After the sellout (for tuppence hapenny) you needed a download for your phone to translate irl-01 to vodafone. If I recall correctly there was a big brouhaha about this in the papers...

pj_samba

1)Do I need a new SIM for a 3G phone?
It depends on the curent version of your SIM - Vodafone automatically will give you a new SIM with a 3G Handset - (the latest SIMS have additional capacity for contacts etc. and generally it is a good idea to upgrade when you go to 3G


2)If so, will they send me a new SIM.

Yes - for free. And most agenst will transfer existing contacts from your old SIM to a new one

3)Will I be charged for getting a new SIM with my current number.
No

4)Is it SIM or Sim or sim?

Who cares - everyone knows what you mean. SIM

Sam Vimes

pj_samba wrote:

4)Is it SIM or Sim or sim?

its SIM. it stand for subscriber identity module. aren't i a nerd

1huge1

Commander Vimes wrote:

its SIM. it stand for subscriber identity module. aren't i a nerd

that or you looked at the 2nd post

Sam Vimes

1huge1 wrote:

that or you looked at the 2nd post

ah i see. i didn't read that bit i swear (looks around guiltily) :v: