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Back in 2005, I published a list of useful mobile handset commands and it’s still attracting some interest so, as I bought a new mobile phone this week and it came with a list of the default PINs for each of the UK mobile operators, I’m re-publishing that information here in case it’s useful to someone:
OperatorDefault PIN
| Vodafone | 0000 |
| O2 | 5555 |
| Orange | 1111 |
| T-Mobile | 1210 |
| 3 | 0000 |
| Virgin Mobile | 1210 |
| Talk Mobile | 0000 |
| Mobile World | 1210 |
Also included was a list of voicemail numbers (for those who don’t have an iPhone with visual voicemail…):
OperatorVoicemail Access Number
| Vodafone | 121 |
| O2 | 1750 [I’ve also used 901] |
| Orange | 123 |
| T-Mobile | 222 |
| 3 | 123 |
| Virgin Mobile | 222 |
| Talk Mobile | 121 |
How about a list of other numbers such as Customer Service and Balance/Top-Up numbers and *# codes?
I should really do it myself and indeed I did compile a list of these some time ago but I have recently found that some numbers and codes, such as those for T-Mobile/Virgin appear to have changed.
Mark, seeing as you have presented the information here so neatly, it seems a shame to start a duplicate page elsewhere just to add these few additional details.
Félim
Félim, have you seen the link to the usefu lmobile handset commands post? There are loads of *# codes there (but not the customer service numbers).
Thanks for this info. Why operators send out SIM cards set not to request a PIN when the phone starts and then don’t let us know what the *&^*&)* PIN is in order to enable it and change it is beyond me!