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TonyM19 said:
My Blackberry Curve 8520 Orange contract expires this month. I was about to upgrade to an iPhone 4s but I've had a bit of a spanner thrown into the works and it will be a couple of months before that happens. I notice that Giffgaff offer Blackberry Sevices as an add on to their 'goody bags'. Anybody got any experience of using them with a BB? Any issues?

Cheers
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my daughter uses the BB service on Giffgaff but to be honest cant say if any issues as giffgaff has only just started to offer BB so she is still in the first month of using it, but so far its all been good
 
Just a little update for those interested...

Gave Tescos a call and the tenner a month for 500mins is good enough for me. Min 3 months afterwhich you're rolling 1 month contract

Voicemail calls are taken out of your bundled minutes. No internet - so that's good enough for me :D

[soz for the thread hijack]
 
You can still cancel contract, you'll just want have your number for 30days. Or just change numbers. It's so simple to send a text message to everyone anyway. It's what I do all the time. Never ever keep the number.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
How can you get a PAC after the contract has expired :confused:

Requesting a PAC code is in effect giving notice.
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Because you don't have to request a PAC code when you give notice of leaving.
You can give your notice in, then request PAC say the following week or whatever.

If you have come to the end of the contract and not given notice that's not company greed, that's your own fault.

O2 will give it to you over the phone with no waiting, so you could phone up on last day of your notice.
 
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Subliminal Aura said:
Just realised that requesting a PAC implies 30 days notice and so I'll still be billed for another 30 days irrespective of when I use the code :mad:

These companies REALLY suck
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Unless GiffGaff do things differently, requesting a PAC does not imply a 30 day notice. If you don't use the PAC it expires and your contract remains.

I've just got my PAC from Vodafone and it says that if I don't want to leave them I simply don't use it and it will expire after 30 days.
 
Glaucus said:
Because you don't have to request a PAC code when you give notice of leaving.
You can give your notice in, then request PAC say the following week or whatever.

If you have come to the end of the contract and not given notice that's not company greed, that's your own fault.

O2 will give it to you over the phone with no waiting, so you could phone up on last day of your notice.
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I won't go into details mate but the long and short of it is that I 'thought' that I had given notice but this does not seem to be the case and despite them knowing that I've been wanting to leave since early Jan they're still asking for 30 days notice.

Sorry for the rant - my bad :o
 
I have the sim card, I have activated by putting on £5 to try it out, and I have the telephone number showing on the online Giffgaff account. - However, I put it into my 3GS and it says "No Service".

Any ideas how to fix this? Does this mean my phone is blocked?
 
It could be locked, have you got another phone you could try it out in?
Otherwise as number is showing in account, then you would need to contact giffgaff agent, forums best bet.
 
I too have an iPhone 3GS that I wanted to keep after my O2 contract ran out. Before the contract ran out, I asked O2 to unlock my phone (which they did for free) and I got a 3 PAYG SIM. I pay £15 /mo. and with that I get 300 mins, unlimited texts (well, 3000 but I use less than 1000 in a month) and unlimited data. GiffGaff's equivalent is £5 cheaper but O2's 3G network here is rubbish, whereas 3's is excellent. I regularly hit 5+GB /mo. and 3 is happy for me to stream all day long. When I am at work (full signal) I get around 2.5 - 3 Mbit /sec. :)

EDIT: And 3 allows tethering, which I use fairly often.
 
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