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O2 pay monthly customers are not subject to a time limit and can unlock their phone free of charge at any point in their contract. If you bought an O2 pay monthly or pay as you go phone before June , you're looking at a wait of up to 72 hours to get your handset unlocked by the network.

Prefer not to talk to anyone? You can also unlock via O2's site or through the MyO2 app. All Vodafone pay monthly and pay as you go handsets bought after July will be locked to the network. To be eligible to do so, PAYG customers must have used their phone number with the handset for at least 30 days. It does. But Tesco Mobile pay monthly and pay as you go phone customers can unlock their handsets pretty easily. Pay monthly Tesco Mobile customers can unlock their phone for free. However, depending on the handset a time limit may apply.

Essentially, this means that you not be able to unlock phones that were recently released. Pay as you go Tesco Mobile customers can unlock their phones for no charge, provided they wait 12 months after it was first activated. Tesco Mobile customers usually face a wait of seven working days to receive their unlocking code. However this varies according to the handset.

It could take up to 20 days. Call from your Tesco Mobile phone, or from any other mobile phone or landline. With the exception of iPhones, all iD Mobile handsets sold with a pay monthly iD contract are unlocked at the point of purchase. In the case of iPhones, the handset will be unlocked six months after the contract started. Locked iPhones on iD Mobile bought on a monthly contract can be unlocked for free, within the first six months. As indicated above, thereafter they're unlocked anyway. Because Sky Mobile phones are supplied unlocked, there is no charge for unlocking them.

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The change was introduced by SMS, without any attempt at consulting existing PAYG customers on how such a change would affect them, and apparently also without alerting sales staff in advance. Seems fair. Years ago I had SIM only contact on Virgin and got rid of it because they were constantly changing the rules.

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Never again. This is them basically phasing out the PAYG service. What a greedy company. Pity the poor pensioners that make the odd call a day!

Pure greed, useless customer service, slow speeds and the deaded purple sims. Oh and the good signal. I will soon also be ditching their Broadband package as well as they keep bumping up the prices and there are far better deals out there. I was a bit annoyed but I was able to order online for free and have just received it. Three also have a very similar plan but only if you have a smartphone.

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Good luck planning your escape from Virgin! Can anyone please tell me if I can transfer my number over to another network?? As if people can really afford cop-out so much more money in this economic climate.

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Learn how your comment data is processed. Comments RSS Feed. Mobile Menu. Email Link News. By Mark Jackson Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset England , he also founded ISPreview in and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Speed: 35Mbps Unlimited. Leave a Comment. October 15, at pm. They also do out of usage charges as well on pay monthly. Glad I never used them. G Cot.