Advice needed please...

[daniel101191]

Ok so im on the worst network going, Three. I sold my contract phone because I needed money for car insurance at the time. Long story short I now have the LG U300, its rubbish, and according to 3 is a 2g handset, so after 5 mins of turning it on, it looses signal and says 'Inactive uSim' So i need a new phone, and I use the site gsmarena.com to look at tech specs and have noticed that there are 2 types of 3g, UMTS (old) and HSDPA (new) the LGu300 is UMTS so i figured that must be why... But the phone I want is also UMTS but is quite a bit newer (the Nokia 6500 Slide). Can anyone tell me if this phone works on 3?? Its so confusing which phone will work and which wont...

cheers, Dan

 

[Myshra]

You're completely wrong. That phone is UMTS for a start - it even says so on gsmarena, second line down no less.

IIRC This is an error commonly found when you use a stolen phone that has been barred or the phone is locked to another network not of the SIMs origin (ie a 3 SIM card in a locked, Orange handset) or option number 3 - SIM dead. A 6500 slide would work, assuming it was not locked to a network.

You should probably call up 3 to get this sorted, only they will be able to help - not us.