Ah ok, mine says that. Was getting confused. Sure I saw someone mention dispatched?!
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Ah ok, mine says that. Was getting confused. Sure I saw someone mention dispatched?!
Done 
pre-ordered my iPhone 5 32gb white, from Orange at 9:00am, they said they needed to check my details, at 9:42am I got another email saying my order was confirmed
They said they have to send it to my home address so I'll be taking the day off work, roll on next friday!
pre-ordered my iPhone 5 32gb white, from Orange at 9:00am, they said they needed to check my details, at 9:42am I got another email saying my order was confirmed
They said they have to send it to my home address so I'll be taking the day off work, roll on next friday!
Someone else way have already mentioned this but just to confirm, you can get a nano sim in-store at Three.
They said they weren't doing them yet until I told them that they were
It's a five minute process. Costs a fiver.
So far, this is one of the easier iPhone order processes I've been through!
Costs £5? Mine was free??
pre-ordered my iPhone 5 32gb white, from Orange at 9:00am, they said they needed to check my details, at 9:42am I got another email saying my order was confirmed
They said they have to send it to my home address so I'll be taking the day off work, roll on next friday!
Hmm, order online a bit before 9, not had an email yet. Was an upgrade though.
pre-ordered my iPhone 5 32gb white, from Orange at 9:00am, they said they needed to check my details, at 9:42am I got another email saying my order was confirmed
They said they have to send it to my home address so I'll be taking the day off work, roll on next friday!
Raint september day off work to get a phone!? :/ is it really worth it?
Cheers for that. Not like to a massive amount but annoying when others a doing em for free.
Idk i have spoken to 3-4 vodafone CS people and was told by all of them 4G will be available for the i5 shortly after the EE group have theirs live. The last person i spoke to the Customer Retention manager (was trying to wangle a better deal lol) said that Vodafone has invested alot of money on the 4G infrastructure and optic firbre networks and will be using that frequency soon. Idk maybe something has come out to do with OFCOM, as it does seem extremely harsh to allow 1 company such a market advantage?
Im not too fussed on 4g tho, just so excited to upgrade from my 8GB 3GS which the home button only works 20% of the time and the lock button hasnt worked in 6months lol. Also retina finally woohoo
and a decent camera 
Very good point! Now I understand the predicament. Then yeah hopefully they can sort it out!
i will be getting friday off work also! cant wait.. think i will have to drive into the city for a nano sim though =[
From Three? Weird. Called yesterday and they said it was a fiver and that's what I got charged in store.
You were lied to. Vodaphone doesn't own any LTE spectrum that the i5 is compatible with.Idk i have spoken to 3-4 vodafone CS people and was told by all of them 4G will be available for the i5 shortly after the EE group have theirs live. The last person i spoke to the Customer Retention manager (was trying to wangle a better deal lol) said that Vodafone has invested alot of money on the 4G infrastructure and optic firbre networks and will be using that frequency soon. Idk maybe something has come out to do with OFCOM, as it does seem extremely harsh to allow 1 company such a market advantage?
Im not too fussed on 4g tho, just so excited to upgrade from my 8GB 3GS which the home button only works 20% of the time and the lock button hasnt worked in 6months lol. Also retina finally woohoo
pre-ordered my iPhone 5 32gb white, from Orange at 9:00am, they said they needed to check my details, at 9:42am I got another email saying my order was confirmed
They said they have to send it to my home address so I'll be taking the day off work, roll on next friday!
Don't suppose they gave you any Sim card info ?
Tesco Mobile say they will have information about getting hold of nano sims and switching from existing sim "very soon" on Twitter.
I phoned them yesterday and was told it would cost £5 but they would disable my existing sim immediately and have to wait 4 or 5 days for the new sim to arrive so I didn't bother.
I then went into a Three store instead and they gave me a new one immediately and didn't charge me a thing. It's already switched over and running in my 4S with the micro adapter.
Orange and T-Mo had 60MHz each originally, with no 900MHz allocation. O2 and Voda got a small allocation of 1800MHz to help with in-fill coverage, e.g. in cities.
When Orange and T-Mo merged, they had to sell off some of their spectrum, which 3 purchased. I think 2x15MHz chunks (1 upload, 1 download) was the smallest needed to offer LTE services.
Remember that Orange and T-Mo need 1800MHz spectrum for their 2G GSM network still, which is why they kept so much.
Someone else way have already mentioned this but just to confirm, you can get a nano sim in-store at Three.
They said they weren't doing them yet until I told them that they were
It's a five minute process. Costs a fiver.
So far, this is one of the easier iPhone order processes I've been through!
A fiver?!?!
Just picked mine up and it was free!
Probably but does seem pretty mental to flat out lie on that level? Perhaps they are challenging the Decision OFCOM made.
O well i can wait for 4G while other people beta test it for me
Im quite dubious whether EE's 4G will be a success.
There's talk of O2 and Vodafone asking to use the existing 3G frequencies for LTE. Surely this would swamp their network and result in incredible slowdown for everyone, but most noticeable for 4G customers? Not that I know anything about telecom.