sonnetpete
Grumpy Old Retired Moderator and quiz inquisitor..
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Laminas 1.2M fibre dish with an IBU, on a Clarke Tech USALS motor, covering 57E - 24.5W to an Octagon SX88. Displayed on a 20" Dyon LED TV.
Seperate 80 cm dish on 28E with a Humax Freesat for SWMBO.
Free Sat V8 meter. Sony Bravia 46" LCD, Sony BluRay and Home Cinema.
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My 84 year old mother dropped an interesting topic into our phone conversation the other night. "I'm changing my mobile"...."I'm getting a Samsung for £100".......Turns out it's from a relation of a neighbours niece (I suppose it's the nearest my Mum will get to buying from a "bloke down the pub"). "He gets them from China" she said and added "he says I can write texts just by speaking into the phone and chat to you and see you at the same time"........I groaned inwardly and remembered how she struggled to master texting with a touch screen and that we gave up in the end and changed her phone for one with a keypad....how she would cope with trying to call me on Skype I don't know....this is the woman who sent me emails and then rang me to check if I'd got them....
Anyway, she has a PAYG phone on Orange. The guy brought her phone tonight but couldn't get the Samsung (model unknown) to accept her sim card. He's taken the new phone away and has told her he will get her a blank sim card and get it working. I'm not looking for advice on the validity or advisabillty of the purchase but an explanation of how a blank sim card could retain her number and access the Orange network so she can still ring Orange and top up her credit. I'm clueless with mobiles as I only use mine for occasional texts and very rare phone calls.
Anyway, she has a PAYG phone on Orange. The guy brought her phone tonight but couldn't get the Samsung (model unknown) to accept her sim card. He's taken the new phone away and has told her he will get her a blank sim card and get it working. I'm not looking for advice on the validity or advisabillty of the purchase but an explanation of how a blank sim card could retain her number and access the Orange network so she can still ring Orange and top up her credit. I'm clueless with mobiles as I only use mine for occasional texts and very rare phone calls.