[quote author=Lectrician link=1124020408/0#6 date=1125162314]All these iemi and puk codes etc - what are they all for - can they cause problems when swapping phones around??
If you have an orange simcard, can this be put in a phone bought as a vodaphone??
How about subcribing to a 12 month pay monthly deal, and cancelling after 12 months - you could have a brand new phone, costing less than the retail price, and paying for it monthly - could you unlock one of these, and put any sim into it??
Sorry - babbling, and trying to find the cheapest way
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Unless already mentioned you can buy most phones new SIM-FREE, this is the best way, if a phone is already registered by it's IMEI number, which is what they register, then it could be difficult to re-register.
Most phone company’s have a large selection of phones available on orange, if you go to the orange site they have only a few..
PUK codes are used for unlocking blocked sim cards normally
If the old/new phone is from/trough vodaphone the chances are that it has been locked to the network and has logos stuck all over it, some of the contract phones trough orange aren’t locked at all..
As for a 12 month contract why would you cancel after 12-months, the contact is only for 12-months and should need renewing?, the phone is long paid for within 12-months!
The best option is to get the phone SIM-FREE, which means it won't be locked to any one network, swap the sim-card and all should be ok, the only thing is orange expect you to register, I know from experience some of them will allow you to register a new phone with the same sim-card so long as the phone isn’t nicked, others will expect you to buy a brand new sim card for some £25 or something and re-register, which usually means a new number but to make it a bit more complicated orange have moved money/texts/and phone number all over from another sim-card registered in the past