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Using Barred phone...

  • 14-11-2007 9:13pm
    #1
    pajodublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭


    Hopefully someone has had experience with this here

    If a phone is barred/blacklisted in the UK can it be used on any of the irish networks?
    I know of someone who bought one and it worked in australia..
    Any Ideas?


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  • #2
    drdre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭drdre


    pajodublin wrote: »
    Hopefully someone has had experience with this here

    If a phone is barred/blacklisted in the UK can it be used on any of the irish networks?
    I know of someone who bought one and it worked in australia..
    Any Ideas?

    I think it can be traced in europe now.Thats what i have heard online.I know it can be used in asia and its no hassle


  • #3
    Rory B
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭Rory B


    If you try to connect to any GSM network it shouldn't work, phones are blacklisted through whats called a EIR, Equipment Identidy Register, so when you switch it on the phones IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) is send to the network which will flag on the networks EIR & you should recieve the error message "Sim Card Registration Failed", but worth a try I suppose..


  • #4
    drdre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭drdre


    pajo what phone is it?Also how cheap are you getting it.It might not be worth the hassle


  • #5
    pajodublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭pajodublin


    drdre - its an N95 and gettin it for 100€

    RoryB - I have an N93i, bought it brand new from a shop and every now and again it will say "Sim Card Registration Failed". any idea why?


  • #6
    Rory B
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭Rory B


    If that just happens now & and again its normally exactly as it means, the phone itself is trying to take too much info from sim card at once and ya lose your network connection, a sim swap would set that right if the sim is any more than a year old, & to a 64k sim at that for 3G coverage!


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  • #7
    pajodublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭pajodublin


    well im with 3 and i have it 2 and a half years


  • #8
    drdre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,244 ✭✭✭drdre


    pajodublin wrote: »
    well im with 3 and i have it 2 and a half years
    If you were with vodafone the cops might have come to your house.Its happened to a friend he bought a phone and straight away got a call saying to return the phone to any vodafone shop.he didnt and at 7am afew days later the cops arrived trying to arrest him for handling stolen phone.He had no previous convictions so he got away with it.But they are getting strict about it.


  • #9
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    pajodublin wrote: »
    If a phone is barred/blacklisted in the UK can it be used on any of the irish networks?
    It means the phone is stolen. User banned. Thread locked.


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