Anyone know if any of the UK networks (especially O2) still use cell
broadcast services which display the local area dialling code on your phone
display ?

Voda do this on channel 51, but I have switched to O2 and want to know if I
can still get it. The phone screen does not look right without it, even if
it is totally useless.

Cheers
Lofty

"Lofty" <paulloft@btconnect.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone know if any of the UK networks (especially O2) still use cell
> broadcast services which display the local area dialling code on your
phone
> display ?
>
> Voda do this on channel 51, but I have switched to O2 and want to know if
I
> can still get it. The phone screen does not look right without it, even if
> it is totally useless.

Didn't BT Cellnet used to broadcast the dailling code on channel 200? Not
sure if O2 kept this, and I haven't enable Cell Broadcast for some time
since I found out that enabling this feature to 'listen' to the cell
broadcast could cause your phone to 'wake-up' more often than necessary (it
is necessary for your phone to wake-up to listen to its assigned paging
channel, but this is probably not aligned with the Cell Broadcast channel,
so your phone has to wake-up more often thereby reducing its potential
standby time).

"Lawrence Wong" <lawrence.wong@inventeer.com> wrote in message
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> "Lofty" <paulloft@btconnect.com> wrote in message
> news:bd998d$mir$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> > Anyone know if any of the UK networks (especially O2) still use cell
> > broadcast services which display the local area dialling code on your
> phone
> > display ?
> >
> > Voda do this on channel 51, but I have switched to O2 and want to know
if
> I
> > can still get it. The phone screen does not look right without it, even
if
> > it is totally useless.
>
> Didn't BT Cellnet used to broadcast the dailling code on channel 200? Not
> sure if O2 kept this, and I haven't enable Cell Broadcast for some time
> since I found out that enabling this feature to 'listen' to the cell
> broadcast could cause your phone to 'wake-up' more often than necessary
(it
> is necessary for your phone to wake-up to listen to its assigned paging
> channel, but this is probably not aligned with the Cell Broadcast channel,
> so your phone has to wake-up more often thereby reducing its potential
> standby time).
>

Thanks, channel 200 it is, but on my Moto T720i it comes up as a message
with vibrating alert instead of just being displayed on the screen.

Looks like I will have to cope without it - but thanks for the advice
anyway - appreciated.

Lofty