freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

[Michael Kluge]

martin-o23533 at neutronstar.dyndns.org schrieb:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:17:17PM +0200, Michael Kluge wrote:
>   
>>>> My German Blau SIM (On the back it says, amongst other things, 3V -
>>>> does that mean volts?) does NOT work on my new GTA02, despite what is
>>>> on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Carriers
>>>>
>>>> One colleague's Dutch Orange SIM did work, but two other German
>>>> Vodafone SIMs did not.
>>>>
>>>> One German and one Dutch T-Mobile SIM did not work, but a German
>>>> Debitel (T-Mobile
>>>> reseller) did.
>>>>
>>>> Nor did a 1 year old German O2 SIM.
>>>>         
>>> Tried 4 more German SIMs - none of the them worked:
>>>
>>> D2 Mannesmann (7 years old)
>>> Vodafone
>>> O2
>>> T-D1 (T-Mobile)
>>>
>>> I don't see any pattern.
>>>
>>> Who has a German SIM working in their FR?
>>>       
>> Yes, I have two, both work fine:
>> - D1 T-Mobile (from mobilcom) ~1year old
>> - E-PLUS SIMYO ~1month ol
> Can you please post what's written on the simyo one? 
> I've got a new simyo card too and it claims to be 1.8V, but i don't have a
> freerunner to test it and i can't justify buying one if it's likely that it
> won't work....
>
> second line of the text on my sim reads 72K 1.8V #569 J276
>   
Sure. "72K 3V #568 H276". I ordered the card mid Juni 2008 and it was 
shipped June, 20 to be exact :)


Michael