You can ask O2 to unlock the phone for you if you are a pay monthly customer...

I did this from O2, so it could be used on Orange, takes about a week from submitting a request.

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If she has an old style sim, you can either get her a new smaller sim from Orange or get a cutter, to make it smaller.

Posted By: Vivid Data Shark, May 9, 11:31:15