Wot's happened to my Nokia E71???

[RickyR]

Do you want the bad news? Did you select 'Roam On' prior to leaving the Philippines? If you didn't, unfortunately the sim card is useless.

[Languish]

Do you want the bad news? Did you select 'Roam On' prior to leaving the Philippines? If you didn't, unfortunately the sim card is useless.

Good point - but aren't most (if not all) phones/sims set for that by default?

[RickyR]

Good point - but aren't most (if not all) phones/sims set for that by default?

I'm afraid not, with a SMART Sim, you have to activate it prior to leaving the country, and the crunch is that you need to deactivate prior to arriving back in the country.
I've made this mistake a few times, and it drives me up the wall!