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Originally Posted by Matth

Wondering what happens about locks when "everything everywhere" is finalized?

With virgin being a virtual network on T-mobile, Virgin sims (were said to) work on T-Mobile locked phones.

Now the "everything everywhere" network will consist of ex-Orange and ex-T-Mobile equipment, so unless sims can have a dual personality, there will be problems crossing between the two sides.

Not sure if you can get the cheaper ones this way, but in-store at carphone warehouse, they did my last phone as a "virginmobile upgrade", which meant taking my current phone number, not having a sim with it, and not having to buy a topup - if you could get one of the really cheap alcatels that way....

The is no issue with Orange using T Mobiles network they just work which will be due to the firmware they send to the simcard which we have done with both of the Orange phones we own last year.