Updated: Never — Philip's Blog

I'm off to the US tomorrow. I called my phone operator earlier today to verify that the tariff plan I'd asked them to change a while back was done successfully (so I would pay slightly less criminal roaming charges while on the other side of that inconvenient ocean). Mysteriously, since that phone call, my phone stopped booting.

Booting the phone without SIM works (offline mode). Booting the phone with someone else's SIM works too (online mode). Putting my SIM in another phone also works fine. So why won't my phone boot work with my SIM?

If my flight tomorrow wasn't at dark o'clock in the morning, I could complain at a shop where they might be able to do something about it... Perhaps lazyweb has some ideas? Maybe there's a SIM pusher at BRU to who can help me?

In the mean time, I trust there's enough GSM 1900 coverage in the places I'm going. The old phone doesn't speak UMTS or GSM 850. mumble standardize mumble.