2006-06-13 16:06:10 · 10 answers · asked by Nate DOGG 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
The above answers are correct. Wireless companies often have agreements with phone manufacturers so that a specific model is limited to one wireless carrier. This works very well for marketing, so that consumers may choose the wireless carrier because they want a specific phone. Typically, the wireless carrier pays a portion of the manufacturing costs in exchange for exclusivity. As phones get older, the carriers often allow phones to be sold with other carriers.
To help protect these agreements, manufacturers "lock" GSM phones with subsidy codes. This is why your SIM will work in any phone from the same carrier but not all carriers. Wireless carriers can unlock phones so that they can be used overseas; there has been quite a demand for "unlocked" phones, so there are now kits you can buy to unlock GSM phones. Often phones that are sold by agent stores or online are already unlocked so they can be used with any carrier.
2006-06-13 16:39:52 · answer #1 · answered by Kylie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but the phone you are putting your SIM card into needs to be the same carrier you currently have. You may need to call the Service Provider and read the ESN (under the battery printed on the phone) to the Customer Service Representative, so they can update the phone to work with your SIM card.
2006-06-13 16:29:24 · answer #2 · answered by Dino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is true, but it doesn't mean that the phone will work. You will probably have good results if you instal the card in another phone within the same company (Ex. T-mobile). The phone has to be "unlocked" in order to accept a SIM card from multiple service providers.
2006-06-13 16:12:05 · answer #3 · answered by Ley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To go with what someone else said earlier, yes you can use it for another phone that uses a SIM card but it might not work correctly on the network if the company doesnt offer that phone. For example, a rep for tmobile was telling me about cool phones that they didnt offer a while ago but it would work with the tmobile sim...... not all features because this was a phone that wasnt offered in the US but they sounded pretty good
2006-06-13 16:43:12 · answer #4 · answered by ESCO1314 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah its very much possible. simcard has nothing to do with the type of phone. you are using ,as long as it has the features it requires ,it has nothing to do with the make as long as its a cell phone.other option can be that if you have a sim which you got from a friend. and its blocked you can not use, no matter how many phones you change.coz all phones has a pin no. and if the pin is blocked. you cannot use the sim unless you have it unblocked .by your service provider........
2006-06-13 22:04:07 · answer #5 · answered by shailees_1962 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
any other phone that uses sim cards, yes
2006-06-13 16:07:54 · answer #6 · answered by Matt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, as long as that card fits in the phone.
2006-06-13 16:09:47 · answer #7 · answered by fixer of all aka mom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sprint telephones artwork with a diverse community. ATT &T, T-cellular, and so on they artwork with GSM (sim card). those you turn the sim card .. sprint, Verizon,..Virgin cellular, those artwork in CDMA community (no SIM playing cards!!) there's no insert for the sim card. you are able to no longer liberate those telephones, till you get Metro desktops, and those are basically chosen telephones.
2016-12-08 20:28:12 · answer #8 · answered by briana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if it's by the same company (Cingular to Cingular...) or if the other phone is unlocked, (an old T-Mobile unlocked can be used by Cingular).
2006-06-13 20:32:12 · answer #9 · answered by ditzychik508 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only if it fits or made by the same company
2006-06-13 16:22:34 · answer #10 · answered by wllshtt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋