What are SIM cards?

[Nelson Bradford]

I noted that eBay has cell phones for sale w/o SIM cards.

What is that????

thanx
-neb

[Hans Deventer]

Nelson, that means you can put your own SIM card in it, keep your phone number and still use this other phone in stead of your old one.

A SIM card is a very small card inside your cell phone that you get from your provider. It defines the network you will be using and your phone number.

[Nelson Bradford]

That explains it!
I now know I do not want to purchase a cell phone w/o the SIMS card.
-neb

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

That explains it!
I now know I do not want to purchase a cell phone w/o the SIMS card.
-neb

Well, not necessarily! If you see an Ebay phone you want and if you already have a phone with a sim card, you can buy the phone, put your card in it and be ready to go. Or, if you are going with a new carrier you can do the contract, take the free phone they give you, and then use the sim card in your fancier Ebay phone.

Or - you can even go to a cell phone company and buy just a sim card for a low price and use your ebay phone with it.

However -- be SURE to verify with your Ebay seller that the phone is "unlocked" and will work with the cell phone service you are buying.

By the way, I bought my wife a pda cell phone without a sim card, then took the sim card out of her old "candy bar" phone and put it in the new phone. Worked like a champ!

[Nelson Bradford]

What I really did was buy - but you sold me, Scott.

Ordered mint condition cell-phone for $9.95 - (shipping $14.95!) - should be here by mid-week. I'll stash it away and use if my current cell kicks the bucket.

So THANX
-neb

[Marg Webb]

Well, not necessarily! If you see an Ebay phone you want and if you already have a phone with a sim card, you can buy the phone, put your card in it and be ready to go. Or, if you are going with a new carrier you can do the contract, take the free phone they give you, and then use the sim card in your fancier Ebay phone.

Or - you can even go to a cell phone company and buy just a sim card for a low price and use your ebay phone with it.

However -- be SURE to verify with your Ebay seller that the phone is "unlocked" and will work with the cell phone service you are buying.

By the way, I bought my wife a pda cell phone without a sim card, then took the sim card out of her old "candy bar" phone and put it in the new phone. Worked like a champ!

My Lands Scott, where do you gain ALL of this knowledge.
I wish you were my Grandson. I will never figure out what all has been written here.
You are someone for one to point and say, "that is Scott Cundiff"!!!!!!!!

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

My Lands Scott, where do you gain ALL of this knowledge.
I wish you were my Grandson. I will never figure out what all has been written here.
You are someone for one to point and say, "that is Scott Cundiff"!!!!!!!!

Ha! I was pretty much in the dark about the sim cards till a few weeks ago. My Sprint phone doesn't use a card. When Jackie's pda quit working I wanted to get her a phone/pda to use and it was then that I started trying to figure out sim cards.

Just between us, and don't tell Nelson, if you just go to google and type in "what is a sim card" you will get lots of interesting information!

[Marg Webb]

Ha! I was pretty much in the dark about the sim cards till a few weeks ago. My Sprint phone doesn't use a card. When Jackie's pda quit working I wanted to get her a phone/pda to use and it was then that I started trying to figure out sim cards.

Just between us, and don't tell Nelson, if you just go to google and type in "what is a sim card" you will get lots of interesting information!

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