Kyle
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I found myself in quite a sticky situation this weekend.
I'm on the Vodafone Evening & Weekend 900 tariff, having a respectable 3650.
However, after visiting a Vodafone store yesterday, I purchased the exclusive VK207i - the only officially released VK Mobile in the UK.
The phone itself is minute and very-well built. It's just a treasure to look at.
The phone came with a PAYT sim, so when I got home I put my contract sim into the newly-purchased handset. To my utter horror, the sim card would not be accepted. So now Vodafone are blocking a full-price handset as well.
Obviously, I am desperate to use the phone with the sim card, so I called the shop back and the person who sold me the phone told me that to have the handset unblocked should be free, as I was a contract customer. However, after two queries with a woman on 191, she did finally confirm that I had to pay £25.
I did authorise Vodafone to process the request for unblocking. Firstly, because I want to use the handset and secondly because the phone is the only one of its kind in the UK, so market traders and such would be unable to unlock it.
However, my contract sim card is still in my 3650 and Vodafone, according to what I could make out, should send me this code to my contract sim card in the 3650. Am I correct in assuming that whatever phone receives the code is irrelevant and that it is only the code of any importance.
After I receive the code to the 3650, do I just have to enter it into the new handset when it says that the sim card isn't recognised?
Sorry for all the questions; I just haven't bought a locked handset before and feel a bit edgy, with £25 and a £130 handset at stake here.
Many thanks!
I'm on the Vodafone Evening & Weekend 900 tariff, having a respectable 3650.
However, after visiting a Vodafone store yesterday, I purchased the exclusive VK207i - the only officially released VK Mobile in the UK.
The phone itself is minute and very-well built. It's just a treasure to look at.
The phone came with a PAYT sim, so when I got home I put my contract sim into the newly-purchased handset. To my utter horror, the sim card would not be accepted. So now Vodafone are blocking a full-price handset as well.
Obviously, I am desperate to use the phone with the sim card, so I called the shop back and the person who sold me the phone told me that to have the handset unblocked should be free, as I was a contract customer. However, after two queries with a woman on 191, she did finally confirm that I had to pay £25.
I did authorise Vodafone to process the request for unblocking. Firstly, because I want to use the handset and secondly because the phone is the only one of its kind in the UK, so market traders and such would be unable to unlock it.
However, my contract sim card is still in my 3650 and Vodafone, according to what I could make out, should send me this code to my contract sim card in the 3650. Am I correct in assuming that whatever phone receives the code is irrelevant and that it is only the code of any importance.
After I receive the code to the 3650, do I just have to enter it into the new handset when it says that the sim card isn't recognised?
Sorry for all the questions; I just haven't bought a locked handset before and feel a bit edgy, with £25 and a £130 handset at stake here.
Many thanks!























