Micro sim card - Sorted.
 

Hi guys,

Just bought a Samsung Galaxy 3 and found out that it takes a micro sim card. I have a normal Virgin sim card in my current Galaxy 2, will Virgin supply me with a micro sim if I ask nicely?

Ta.

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Well the answer is yes. Spoke to a very nice lady and she's sending me one for 5 quid. A satisfied VM customer yet again.

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hi

I just bought a htc windows phone (on contract) and was given a micro sim for free and instructions on how to register it once my contacts were moved over

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it is awful they charge. I cut my daughters down myself

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I'd phone back and get that refunded - there isn't a charge to go from a normal SIM to a micro or nano one.

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Really? - When I phoned I got a flat 'NO' When I asked for a micro sim - so I bought a cutting thingy off ebay.

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Depends when you asked - they only got introduced for swaps end of last year http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...s/td-p/1603418

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cheers

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I cut my own card down using instructions here; http://www.thechinacellphone.com/micro_sim_template.pdf

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I cut my regular sim down and it works okay but for 5 quid I might as well have a proper one. I just downloaded a pdf template, grabbed a pair of scissors and a pencil and went to work. LUCKILY I tried it with an old Orange sim card first and did it back to front! Then I got my brain in gear and did it properly.

I can't understand why the Samsung s3 uses a micro sim, the phone isn't exactly small.

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But it is smooth, fast, and silky to the touch, and awesome, finally, I have found a worthy replacement for my beloved Blackberry.

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iPhone 5 uses a nano-SIM which is even smaller than a micro SIM.

I would expect you can fit a fair bit of stuff into the space left by the smaller SIM

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The space left by the smaller SIM on the S3 has been fit by nothing but air and plastic filler.

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they should not be charging for these

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Ah ok. Maybe for Samsung it was simply to make it easier for iPhone customers to swap?

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Perhaps, or the general Apple pushes a standard and everyone has to follow it or get left behind...

I also agree they shouldn't be chargeable, Orange once tried charging me £15 for a SIM that didn't do what I wanted anyway, I went and ordered 4 free SIMs off the web :-/

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Well the brief has gone out again to staff to remind them going from a mini SIM to a micro/nano SIM isn't chargeable

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Just got a call from Virgin. Since 2010, a replacement sim card is chargeable. If it was faulty etc. it would be free but seeing as I already had a perfectly working sim card (even though it no longer fit in my phone) I had to pay. Maybe I should have cancelled my rolling contract and then signed up for a new one!

:D

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Oh :banghead:

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Yeah retentions would probably have waived the charge if you called up and threatened to leave.

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Having been on Virgin Mob contract for over 10 years and upgraded to a simm free Nexus 4 (not bought from Virgin but Google) last month they gave me a micro sim for nothing. Arrived next day. I also got a free replacement sim when my old phone was nicked in 2009.

Rang cust services from my Virgin home phone after I had fitted it and listening to a rigorous typing frenzy, my phone sprung into life with my same number. I borrowed a sim cutter to trim an old O2 simm to make a template so I could copy contacts from the Nokia to the new sim.
Couldn't have been more helpful.