Can domestic mobile phones still be used in Britain?

British mobile phone

1. Mobile phone network

1) O2, once BT (BT), is now called O2. Because there are free numbers to make domestic calls, many China students sign O2 mobile phones.

2) Vodafone, which should be the largest mobile phone service provider in Britain, has been widely used by students in China.

3) T-Mobile, a German company that annexed its predecessor ONE 2 ONE last year, is generally optimistic at present.

4)ORANGE is said to be one of Li Ka-shing's subsidiaries. I heard that it is widely used in Britain, but I don't know why people in China use it less. Some people think that it is probably because orange's mobile phone is locked, which means that the mobile phone bought in orange, England, can't be used in China if it is not decoded.

5)3G, in fact, 3G is just a technology, and of course it is also a network. Many companies have started to build their own 3G networks, such as O2 and Vodaphone. 3G is popular recently, because it is cheaper to make calls across the network at any time, which is unmatched by other mobile phones. The disadvantage is, of course, that the network is not perfect, the call quality in southern England is better, and the call quality in northern England is not very good, so it is easy to drop the call.

2. Classification of mobile phone charges

1) Monthly payment is equivalent to a domestic mobile phone, with a certain monthly rent, but the biggest difference is that the domestic monthly rent is a monthly rent, which does not give you any free time! The paid monthly telephone here is divided into many free time specifications according to different prices.

Monthly rent classification:

A) time point:

Anytime: It's cheaper to make phone calls during the day, but you have less free time.

Off-peak: mainly used after work. It's cheaper from 7: 00 pm to 8: 00 am Monday to Friday or all day on weekends. Many students in China have signed peak, because they have more free time, so they can talk to their families on the phone.

B) cross-network

Cross-network: calling any company mobile phone or landline can be counted as free time. Of course, the monthly rent is more expensive.

Others: Only calling the same network number is free, and calling landlines in the UK is free. British mobile phones do not belong to provinces or counties, and they will not roam anywhere except outside the UK.

2) Prepayment for mobile phones

This is like buying a card in China, and Shenzhouxing Ruyitong is this type. You can use a dual-band and tri-band mobile phone brought from China, both in Chinese and English. You can buy a sim card in the store here, and you usually choose the network that your friends who often contact are using, because it is still expensive to call other networks. As far as Vodafone is concerned, there are also several different options. One tariff is 40p per minute during peak hours and 10p per minute during off-peak hours, which is also suitable for people who don't talk much during the day. The second one is called smartstep or startup, which is 25p in the first three minutes every day, 5p in one minute, and the other one is 10p, one minute at any time. Sending messages is 12p, which is generally not free. Then the choice of the other three networks will be slightly different, but they are all roughly the same.

This kind of mobile phone recharge:

1) Buy prepaid coupons in the store.

2) Use a debit card or credit card to recharge (for example, dial a shortcut key to recharge, for example, O2 is 4444, and other Internet phones are generally found in your contact list, which is called recharging credit).

If you don't have many mobile phones, you can choose to pay as you go if you have a mobile phone brought from China. If you don't have a mobile phone, you can buy it here. I don't think it's worth paying in advance, because mobile phones are expensive. You can use the money to buy a mobile phone to sign a pay monthly mobile phone for one year (pay monthly mobile phone is generally free, unless you are a mobile phone enthusiast, follow the trend to buy the latest mobile phone). Pay a monthly fee and get a free mobile phone! But it will take at least 12 months to sign the contract! (voiceover-that is to say, he can earn money back from 12 months' monthly rent, but it is certainly so cost-effective compared with buying bare metal)! Even if the new machine comes out within half a year, it will reduce the price and make you laugh! In fact, there are many free mobile phones to choose from, which can meet the requirements of most people. How to sign a mobile phone, my previous post has.

Another point that is most different from that in China is that mobile phones in Britain or Europe are charged separately! Therefore, friends who answer the phone need not worry!

! ! ! ! Important! ! !

Last but not least, don't bring the British card back to China and still use it! ! Although it can be used in China (mobile phones generally roam automatically around the world), but! ! Even if you don't call, just answering the phone or sending and receiving information is very, very expensive! ! This is a bloody lesson. I hope everyone can learn. Some people spit out 1 more than 1,000 pounds (receiving a phone call in China, probably receiving a phone call in the UK 1 week), everyone! Don't take any chances!

When I first entered the UK, a very important part of my life was my mobile phone. You can contact your family, make new friends, find a job, and handle all kinds of banking and credit card business. For students who have just gone abroad, mobile phones are almost a necessity. In view of the address and length restrictions of bt, ntl and other landlines, and the general fixed-line service providers will charge corresponding installation fees, it is far less convenient than mobile phones.

3G is cheap to make calls to Britain, O2 is cheap to make domestic calls, and the access number is free.

O2 pay calls China mobile phone for free every month (only deducting your free time), and the access number is:

0870-794- 1368 (all day Monday to Friday),

0844-570- 1368 (all day Saturday and Sunday)

This is the agent number of just-dial company, and O2pay monthly users can use it with confidence.

The dialing method is:

(1)0870-794- 1368 (or 0844-570- 1368),

(2) When you hear someone talking at the access end, just dial the country code, area code and telephone number. For example, to call Beijing (the area code of China is 0 10) is 008610 ×××××××××× Hangzhou (the area code of China is 057 1) is 008657 0086 10 ××××××× Yes.

(3) Then wait for the connection and don't press any key. If the call is not clear, dial access again.

(Note: 0870 and 0844 are toll-free numbers for O2 pay monthly calls. For details, please refer to the O2 website:/

/RingChina/

The following is the website of Taiwan Province compatriots, which can also be used for price comparison!

British mobile phone

1. Mobile phone network

1) O2, once BT (BT), is now called O2. Because there are free numbers to make domestic calls, many China students sign O2 mobile phones.

2) Vodafone, which should be the largest mobile phone service provider in Britain, has been widely used by students in China.

3) T-Mobile, a German company that annexed its predecessor ONE 2 ONE last year, is generally optimistic at present.

4)ORANGE is said to be one of Li Ka-shing's subsidiaries. I heard that it is widely used in Britain, but I don't know why people in China use it less. Some people think that it is probably because orange's mobile phone is locked, which means that the mobile phone bought in orange, England, can't be used in China if it is not decoded.

5)3G, in fact, 3G is just a technology, and of course it is also a network. Many companies have started to build their own 3G networks, such as O2 and Vodaphone. 3G is popular recently, because it is cheaper to make calls across the network at any time, which is unmatched by other mobile phones. The disadvantage is, of course, that the network is not perfect, the call quality in southern England is better, and the call quality in northern England is not very good, so it is easy to drop the call.

2. Classification of mobile phone charges

1) Monthly payment is equivalent to a domestic mobile phone, with a certain monthly rent, but the biggest difference is that the domestic monthly rent is a monthly rent, which does not give you any free time! The paid monthly telephone here is divided into many free time specifications according to different prices.

Monthly rent classification:

A) time point:

Anytime: It's cheaper to make phone calls during the day, but you have less free time.

Off-peak: mainly used after work. It's cheaper from 7: 00 pm to 8: 00 am Monday to Friday or all day on weekends. Many students in China have signed peak, because they have more free time, so they can talk to their families on the phone.

B) cross-network

Cross-network: calling any company mobile phone or landline can be counted as free time. Of course, the monthly rent is more expensive.

Others: Only calling the same network number is free, and calling landlines in the UK is free. British mobile phones do not belong to provinces or counties, and they will not roam anywhere except outside the UK.

2) Prepayment for mobile phones

This is like buying a card in China, and Shenzhouxing Ruyitong is this type. You can use a dual-band and tri-band mobile phone brought from China, both in Chinese and English. You can buy a sim card in the store here, and you usually choose the network that your friends who often contact are using, because it is still expensive to call other networks. As far as Vodafone is concerned, there are several different options. One tariff is 40p per minute during peak hours and 10p per minute during off-peak hours, which is also suitable for people who don't talk much during the day. The second one is called smartstep or startup, which is 25p in the first three minutes, 5p in one minute and 10p at any time. Sending messages is 12p, which is generally not free. Then the choice of the other three networks will be slightly different, but they are all roughly the same.

This kind of mobile phone recharge:

1) Buy prepaid coupons in the store.

2) Use a debit card or credit card to recharge (for example, dial a shortcut key to recharge, for example, O2 is 4444, and other Internet phones are generally found in your contact list, which is called recharging credit).

If you don't have many mobile phones, you can choose to pay as you go if you have a mobile phone brought from China. If you don't have a mobile phone, you can buy it here. I don't think it's worth paying in advance, because mobile phones are expensive. You can use the money to buy a mobile phone to sign a pay monthly mobile phone for one year (pay monthly mobile phone is generally free, unless you are a mobile phone enthusiast, follow the trend to buy the latest mobile phone). Pay a monthly fee and get a free mobile phone! But it will take at least 12 months to sign the contract! (voiceover-that is to say, he can earn money back from 12 months' monthly rent, but it is certainly so cost-effective compared with buying bare metal)! Even if the new machine comes out within half a year, it will reduce the price and make you laugh! In fact, there are many free mobile phones to choose from, which can meet the requirements of most people. How to sign a mobile phone? My previous post has.

Another point that is most different from that in China is that mobile phones in Britain or Europe are charged separately! Therefore, friends who answer the phone need not worry!

! ! ! ! Important! ! !

Last but not least, don't bring the British card back to China and still use it! ! Although it can be used in China (mobile phones generally roam automatically around the world), but! ! Even if you don't call, just answering the phone or sending and receiving information is very, very expensive! ! This is a bloody lesson. I hope everyone can learn. Some people spit out 1 more than 1,000 pounds (receiving a phone call in China, probably receiving a phone call in the UK 1 week), everyone! Don't take any chances!

Tips for using mobile phone

Putting the card number and password together means using "pause dialing" between the card number and password, and different mobile phones are represented by P or+:

For example, the access number is 02070000000, and the card number is1111.

It can be stored on the mobile phone as: 0207000000000 p11111.

If the card password is 2222 (many cards don't have passwords): 020 700000000 p111111p222.

How to enter the pause key p:

Nokia /LG phones:

P: Press * three times, and P will appear.

Siemens/Panasonic Tel:

+:Press and hold 0, and a+sign will appear.

Motorola/Ericsson mobile phone:

P: Hold down * and P will appear.

Change the mobile phone network:

Many friends are dissatisfied with the current mobile phone company and want to change the network. Give some advice:

1) The contract is not full and cannot be modified. If you insist on changing it, you will have to pay a certain fine.

2) Whether it is signed online or in the store, you have to find your telephone billing company to cancel your mobile phone. Their contact information is on your phone bill. If your contract expires and you call to cancel it, they have no reason to refuse. Of course, under normal circumstances, they want to keep you. If you don't want to disturb them, just say you want to go back to China and close your bank account. Haha, they will cancel you without hesitation.

By the way, a friend signed a mobile phone in the store, and when the contract expires, he will go to the store to cancel it for you. Maybe people leave you alone, so you feel very angry. Why don't they have this attitude when they buy mobile phones? you are talking to the wrong person. Because selling mobile phones and operating mobile phone networks are generally different. It's your luck that some shop assistants will call to cancel for you. Some shop assistants will be unwilling to help you, and you can't help it, because it's not his business.

3) Of course, the original mobile phone company has no reason not to let you cancel the contract after you have fulfilled it. You may want to keep the original number. When you terminate the contract, you can ask the original mobile phone service provider for a PAC (Port Authorization Code), so that when you apply for a new mobile phone, you can ask the new mobile phone service company to transfer your original number to the new network, so that you can keep your original mobile phone number and prevent your friends from losing contact with you.

4) The mobile phone with online sign usually has a new number. If you want to use the original number, call the new mobile phone service provider and tell them your old PAC, and the rest is their business.

Note that PAC is only valid for 30 days.