Guest Lindt Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Hi anyone Can anyone tell me about 'mobile phones' Just waitin to sell the house, hope to be over in Melbourne by end of January or soon as, (depends on sale of house) We are all on (pay as you go - with Orange) need to know about mobiles, can we bring them over with us and if so can we still use them? Can we still buy credit other there, or do they use different networks or would we have to buy more phones. Greatly appreciated LindT The Taylor Family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fraser Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Hi anyone Can anyone tell me about 'mobile phones' Just waitin to sell the house, hope to be over in Melbourne by end of January or soon as, (depends on sale of house) We are all on (pay as you go - with Orange) need to know about mobiles, can we bring them over with us and if so can we still use them? Can we still buy credit other there, or do they use different networks or would we have to buy more phones. Greatly appreciated LindT The Taylor Family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fraser Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Hi anyone Can anyone tell me about 'mobile phones' Just waitin to sell the house, hope to be over in Melbourne by end of January or soon as, (depends on sale of house) We are all on (pay as you go - with Orange) need to know about mobiles, can we bring them over with us and if so can we still use them? Can we still buy credit other there, or do they use different networks or would we have to buy more phones. Greatly appreciated LindT The Taylor Family Well... that was stupid... (The last post) I clicked when i shouldn't have... Mobiles should be fine if they are standard GSM. The CDMA network here has a dubious long-term future. Orange operate here as "3". http://www.three.com.au/... They should be able to arrange a transfer. I have four phones within teh houshold on "3" (Wife and three kids... because you get free 3 -to - 3 calls). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lindt Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Thanks Fraser LindT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ohippychick Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Thanks Fraser LindT Just make sure that the phones are unlocked first. I forgot on one of mine and it's now useless ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lindt Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Thanks for the tip Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nelson Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Unlocking phones is an expensive business here - about $60. Also, mobile phone technology is way behind.. Nice ones are really expensive too! Vodaphone do a $49 maxi-cap, (which you can buy -10% from Big W!) and for that, you get $230 worth of calls + 20mins international calling. You can text overseas as well. You have to use it in a month but I found this much cheaper than using the land line anyway and, certainly in the early days, at least you know where you are and don't get any surprise phone bills! Just turn up at a Vodaphone shop with your passport and you'll be up and running within minutes. For land lines, you can buy overseas calling cards for $20 which give you a ridiculous amount of talk time for the cost of a local call. That, too, proved to be invaluable when I had to phone banks and stuff in England because they weren't doing what I had specifically requested)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Debs64 Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 This may be useful, Martin Lewis on http://www.moneysavingexpert.com has a guide on how to unlock your mobile phone ~ I'm not sure if I can put a link in properly but I'll have a go http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?newsid1124214048,51164 best wishes Debbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hayley Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Hi there, we brought our phones with us, had them unlocked first and got pay as u go sim cards over here. Easily done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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