Can I get a duplicate SIM card so I can have two mobiles with same number?
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Hi,
can I get a duplicate SIM card so I can have two mobiles with same number?
I carry a different mobile at the weekend (less bulky) and wondering if I can get around having to constantly change the SIM card.
PLEASE help if you know the answer. This forum is getting a bit dry for replies recently.
Many thanks in advance.
can I get a duplicate SIM card so I can have two mobiles with same number?
I carry a different mobile at the weekend (less bulky) and wondering if I can get around having to constantly change the SIM card.
PLEASE help if you know the answer. This forum is getting a bit dry for replies recently.
Many thanks in advance.
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Not sure if this kind of thing is illegal or not, but it would be pretty easy for your network to find out you're doing this and shut your account down if it's against their terms of service.
All you do is put in an unlock code to activate that sim and deactivates other.
http://www.orange.co.uk/business/corporate/using/callmanagement/singlenumber.html
Basically you get another sim card with a different number, whichever phone is switched on gets the calls as if it was the main phone.
When dialling from the second phone, the caller id is the main phones number. It is possible to use both devices at the same time, but the 2nd phone use the new number from the new sim card instead.
Texts on the main number only go to the main phone, to text the 2nd phone you have to use the 2nd phone's number.
This service is £3 a month, I have a PDA which I use for work, and on a night and weekends I use my Moto V3 instead because I don't wish to carry my PDA when I'm off work.
I don't know if this is available for regular contract customers and I would say definately not for payg customers.
If it's a PAYG account, and assuming divert is available, then when the credit runs out on the diverting number, the call will not be diverted.
If you use divert every incoming call that is diverted is charged to that number. I used to use this before but it ended up costing me a fortune.
I guess it really benefits people who get a lot of calls diverted. Everybodys situation is different, this is the ideal solution to my particular problem.
also you are limited on which price plan you can have on that also
Sounds good, any one found a link for this, I am looking but no luck.
Orange offer a multi sim option as well.
http://www.orange.co.uk/business/corporate/using/callmanagement/singlenumber.html
Looks like it is only open to business, and also £5 per month seems a bit steep.
its now £7 +vat
even more of a rip off
I take it your not on o2 then as this isn't possible.
The other networks should have simply changed the Sim serial number reg to your account so both sim cards cannot work at the same time.
It wouldn't work on EE either, when the replacement sim is issued the process automatically deactivates the original sim.
It's a strange thought by bigstunnerdude, if the first sim was reported lost the network would never leave the sim active, it could be used at any time in the future if it was found by a third party (and leave the network open to the loss incurred on the original sim).
If they haven't caught up in 8 years I don't think they ever will.
There's no profit in catching up ;-)
That's not what is meant, unless you are saying you have 3 mobile phones, and 3 SIM cards in those phones and all 3 have the same number?
It is allowed, you having one SIM card sharing 3 phones. That is what I do.
Anyone can use one simcard in 3 phones, the OP's requirement was the equivalent of 3 SIM cards with the same number to work in 3 phones.
It's not the same as just moving your one sim around amongst many phones.
so if there is any incoming call or message, it will arrive in 3 phones at the same time? I'm so confused
No, there is a short code sent to the network to make one of the the cards the active card, only one receives calls at a time.
It was designed in the days of fixed car phones and separate handhelds, when you got in the car you would short code to make the car phone live and vice versa to the handheld mobile when you left the car.