My mom, a T-Mobile customer for over two years, recently changed her plan and got a new phone. She did this in a store and had no problems, they put the old sim card in the new phone, Samsung T209 and sent her on her way. Question, her sim was well over two years old....shouldn't they have given her a new sim? Has Tmobile made changes to their sim cards over the past two years? I know Cingular has. Thanks in advance.
There is generally no need to obtain a new SIM, unless the SIM fails to work properly. Cingular issued new SIM's as a result of their acquisition of AT&T Wireless.
I had the same concerns since my original T-Mobile phone was 1900 MHz-only almost 3 years ago. But the old SIM has found 850 MHz roaming and all the new features I expect. I discussed the possibility of needing a new SIM at length w/CS, but several agents agree there is no need.
As far as i know, nothings changed. I used the same SIM for 3 years w/o issues. Ive also been through 4 phones with no issues with the SIM.
yeah.....i know when i upgraded my mom and i on tmobile several months ago.....they sent a SIM with my moms upgrade and i called about it and they said that sometimes the companies put SIMs inside the boxes and Tmobile never removes them....she said that as long as the current SIM is working properly....dont go through the hell of changin it........it would involve reactivating and reentering the IMEI and SIM ID......then all numbers needed to be manually copied over because Tmobile doesnt have a backup service
Most GSM phones have an option to copy your SIM to the phone thereby transfering your numbers to your new SIM when you copy to SIM from internal memory. Since this is done by the customer, T Mobile dosen't need a transfer service.
good point....most cell phone stores also have a small device that creates a full copy of one SIM and write it on another.....its about the size of a calculater as I saw at one store
Wirelessly posted (Cingula 8125 (Thor): HTC-8100/1.2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)) More specifically it's a smart card reader/writer, you know you can build one of those for $12, I won't go into specifics of my background here, but it's the same as an ISO interface with Satellite cards, bank cards, and a variety of other smart cards. The difference is in the size of the plastic, ie the other cards have enough plastic to make them credit card size, you'll notice the filler plastic at the stores. It's amazing how simple smart cards are, the 64k cards we have, I believe, are simple storage rom combined with eeprom, and probably an ASIC to encrypt/decrypt parts of the rom.