Great, just great. Few days ago, my mate was talking about this new phone company called Giffgaff (http://www.giffgaff.com) as he felt it was better for me, since each text costs 4p instead of usual 10p, and there's also goody bags such as £5 bag for unlimited text, I thought it sounded good.

I went ahead and activated it yesterday (waited for site to say it's activated before I put the simcard in after paid), and spent £15 on £10 topup + £5 goody bag to get started.... and guess what, my current mobile seems doesn't recognise the mobile in a weird way, I mean I can turn it on and access to any options but whenever I try to send message or even make a test call, it won't let me as it has NO signal whatosever and thus I can't use the simcard to text :/

I'm doing conversion with Giffgaff staff member and hopefully we can solve this, but thankfully I do still have my Orange sim card so I can use my mobile to text, but it doesn't change the fact I spent £15 on this sim card and it's un-useable at the moment. :-/

I really hope it's just effect of slow activation and that it activates tomorrow or something, but I guess I'll have to test it on another mobile... even though I only have one that's unlocked & is O2-branded, even I could use my orange sim card fine...

Oh yeah I'm also in area where O2 is supported (Giffgaff runs on O2 network) so it's not area issues either.

Why are phones confusing as fuck, I wish it's matter of simply putting in sim card and I am able to use it. But no. FFS.