Phil
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Post by Phil on Jan 20, 2006 18:02:01 GMT
just before Xmas I did an upgrade on my mobile and got a new phone on the same tariff (same phone as Colin's!) I also had a free PAYG sim from 0 2, so I put that in the old phone for the sake of something better to do with it. I regrettably am on a couple of mailing list which are free to belong to but take 3 messages at £1.50 each to cancel. (so haven't cancelled) Sooooo nothing unusual till today. Then one of these mailers (who only mail once every couple of months) messages me......on the old phone! With a completely different number from my main phone. And it DIDN'T also get to my current phone. What the h*ll's going on? And what are the implications for any others of you if you change phones?  ? |
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Post by citysig on Jan 21, 2006 20:15:35 GMT
The wife had something similar a while back.
Some of these services are (cleverly?) registered to the actual phone itself and not the network telephone number your phone has.
Each phone has a "unique" number which is different to that which is dialled by people calling you. It's the number the network operators can use to block your phone and make it useless should it be stolen - regardless of new sim cards etc.
So until your unique number is removed from the list (which is done by the cancelling process) regardless of what network the phone is on, it will receive their messages until they go out of business (which, with most of them, is unlikely to happen as they have made a fortune).
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Phil
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Post by Phil on Jan 21, 2006 21:08:36 GMT
Thanks Citysig - I thought I was going mad, especially when the same thing happened again today!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2006 21:15:53 GMT
The unique number is the IMEI Number. Like a bar code on items in a shop.
Haven't a clue what IMEI actually means tho..., but I do have a mobile phone, not a good one, but it does the job... Last three I had ended up getting dropped.
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Post by oliver on Jan 21, 2006 21:21:30 GMT
IMEI stands for 'International Mobile Equipment Identity' which is a unique 15-digit code used to identify an individual GSM mobile phone to a GSM network.
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Phil
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Post by Phil on Jan 22, 2006 16:02:16 GMT
So that's the 'what' - I understand that. Now as to the How and Why?
Can anyone explain how the company can address things to the IMEI rather than the sim/phone number? When I sell the phone on ebay the purchaser is going to get all these unwanted mails from the company and they will lose me as a 'customer' whatever happens. What is in it for the company to go to the trouble of getting hold of an IMEI???
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Post by oliver on Jan 22, 2006 17:53:25 GMT
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