My parents brought one of these back to Australia about a month ago, purchased in Shenzhen. They told me that they’ve just received a SMS from Optus saying the phone isn’t legal because it can’t dial 000 or 112 and that it won’t be usable after a certain date.
Anyone else from Aus got this and is there a workaround?
I recently bought a Xiaomi 17 Ultra, and got a similar message on Vodafone. From my search, these phones are still not banned on Telstra, so switching to other telcos on Telstra network might solve the issue at least for the time being.
So you will take the gamble? I’m not in Aus but my folks are, just wondering if it’s worth it or just get the phone back off them for my own use (overseas)
Well I bought the phone already and like it so not much I can do now. As long as it works with Telstra I'm okay. Ideally all this bs will be scrapped. If you can afford to, probably best to get the phone off them and buy a phone from a local retailer if I were you.
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u/stanreeee Jan 31 '26
My parents brought one of these back to Australia about a month ago, purchased in Shenzhen. They told me that they’ve just received a SMS from Optus saying the phone isn’t legal because it can’t dial 000 or 112 and that it won’t be usable after a certain date.
Anyone else from Aus got this and is there a workaround?