Activating car phone in BMW E39 540 UK - which network?

...he he, I have the same problem - got a 1998 540i 3 weeks back, bought
an O2 sim card, phone insists that I "check the card"!

Any ideas anyone? I assume that unless the phone recognises the card, I
cannot register it by dialing 450.....

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.


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bimmerbob
Message Origin: TRAVEL.com

Sounds like you are locked to a particular network.

"bimmerbob" > wrote in message
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>
> ..he he, I have the same problem - got a 1998 540i 3 weeks back, bought
> an O2 sim card, phone insists that I "check the card"!
>
> Any ideas anyone? I assume that unless the phone recognises the card, I
> cannot register it by dialing 450.....
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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> bimmerbob
> Message Origin: TRAVEL.com
>

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:06:09 -0600, bimmerbob
> wrote:

>
>..he he, I have the same problem - got a 1998 540i 3 weeks back, bought
>an O2 sim card, phone insists that I "check the card"!
>
>Any ideas anyone? I assume that unless the phone recognises the card, I
>cannot register it by dialing 450.....
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks.

The problem is that the system only used Vodaphone I think. Th eBMW system is a
fixed setup and the phone were either eriksson or motorola on 900Mhz??? or
something like that.

Ther is a bluetooth conversion available for the car - ask your dealer or go to
bmwoem.co.uk - or do a google search for bme-bluetooth.

I have seen a US site but I know parrot do something that works.
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