I went into buy a cellphone for my sister today using my number's upgrade becuase her number is not eligible until May. However the sales person told me that if I bought a new phone using my number her SIM would not work in the phone because they have started "tracking serial numbers." Is this true, and if so does anyone know how to get around it?
Thanks
David
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elmo01 Posts: 2342
Phone Model: Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider: Bell Canada
Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:34 am
not true
Shalalala Posts: 658
Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:01 pm
Very hard and potentially illegal to do so.
GreySoul Posts: 37
Phone Model: Samsung SYNC
Service Provider: AT&T
Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:12 pm
false! go in a different store and just don't say thats what you're really doing. saves you a headache and a bunch of confusion.
gerio Posts: 477
Phone Model: (Long sigh) 'Nother iPhone (keeping my Moto Q, though)
Service Provider: AT&T & Cellular South
Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:00 am
Weird. All the years I've been using phones with SIM cards, no one has ever expressed any interest whatsoever in which SIM card I use in which phone. Until, of course, the iPhone came along. Grrr.
Geri O
computerslayer Posts: 143
Phone Model: Blackberry 8820
Service Provider: AT&T
Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:55 am
dclarke808 wrote:
Hey-
I went into buy a cellphone for my sister today using my number's upgrade becuase her number is not eligible until May. However the sales person told me that if I bought a new phone using my number her SIM would not work in the phone because they have started "tracking serial numbers." Is this true, and if so does anyone know how to get around it?
Thanks
David
A bunch of bunk: that sales person is trying to intimidate you. After all, it will be your phone, who cares how you use it (or give it away)? Not to mention the fact that it is legally your phone after purchase....
"tracking serial numbers" - who tries to sell that kind of line? Utterly ridiculous.
- Jacob
(Now if your sister doesn't use AT&T, you'll have to get the phone unlocked first before it will work with a non-AT&T SIM card - but thats a different matter entirely)
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