help request - mobile phones
kinda two aspects to my request for help/advice/info/opinions here...
anyone any ideas about mobile phone reception in the scottish highlands, as in which networks might work? i like not having mobile phoneability... but also value its availability as a useful tool for contacting assistance in the event of vehicular breaking down in the middle of nowhere (i go to the kinds of nowhere that i don't get passed by many other vehicles/people very often at all). i currently use virgin mobile network (pay as you go), and remember having had little/no reception, and no reliable reception, in previous years.
assuming the possibility of a network with reasonable/reliable coverage in these areas, who offer pay-as-you-go (not contract), my options:
1. get a new SIM card and simply use it in existing phone?
2. pick up a spare handset and put new SIM in it?
option 1 would necessitate me getting my current phone unlocked - do i pay the network provider to do this? go to a shop and pay them? use an online facility (and pay them)? any way i can do it for free? (sony ericsson k750i).
option 2 would need me to keep more than one phone charged (probably not a problem), and might also necessitate getting handset unlocked. which prompts another idea/option:
3. any of you got old handsets locked to various networks (or unlocked), with reasonable (but not necessarily brilliant, or even good) battery when charged which you don't want/need? prepared to send them this way? i could pick up SIM cards, and take a selection and report back on which one(s) work where! gah the idea of carrying more mobile phones than i need, when one is often too much! =winky smile=
okay.. hoping for your advices/informations/ideas on these matters, and any related =smile = thanks.
anyone any ideas about mobile phone reception in the scottish highlands, as in which networks might work? i like not having mobile phoneability... but also value its availability as a useful tool for contacting assistance in the event of vehicular breaking down in the middle of nowhere (i go to the kinds of nowhere that i don't get passed by many other vehicles/people very often at all). i currently use virgin mobile network (pay as you go), and remember having had little/no reception, and no reliable reception, in previous years.
assuming the possibility of a network with reasonable/reliable coverage in these areas, who offer pay-as-you-go (not contract), my options:
1. get a new SIM card and simply use it in existing phone?
2. pick up a spare handset and put new SIM in it?
option 1 would necessitate me getting my current phone unlocked - do i pay the network provider to do this? go to a shop and pay them? use an online facility (and pay them)? any way i can do it for free? (sony ericsson k750i).
option 2 would need me to keep more than one phone charged (probably not a problem), and might also necessitate getting handset unlocked. which prompts another idea/option:
3. any of you got old handsets locked to various networks (or unlocked), with reasonable (but not necessarily brilliant, or even good) battery when charged which you don't want/need? prepared to send them this way? i could pick up SIM cards, and take a selection and report back on which one(s) work where! gah the idea of carrying more mobile phones than i need, when one is often too much! =winky smile=
okay.. hoping for your advices/informations/ideas on these matters, and any related =smile = thanks.