Broadband and Me: Multiple SIM cards in one Mobile Phone

November 11, 2004

Multiple SIM cards in one Mobile Phone

Dina ponders:

...So each person would have to carry two SIM cards - and replace them as appropriate depending on whether they are making a personal call or an official call. Or carry two phones. And each person would have separate mobile phone numbers for personal and official calls.

Makes no sense to me !

Makes me wonder whether there are any cell phones with two SIM card slots, without the phone having to be turned off each time you want to swap.

Totally agree. Would really like to have two SIMs in my phone but can only have one so I choose to use it with a work SIM in it. Ideally I could simply switch to my personal SIM and do so much more!!! As I commented on Dina's blog, Orange in the UK have a Line 2 option but this doesn't fulfil my needs. Does anyone know of any solutions?

Posted by Paul Goodison at November 11, 2004 10:14 AM | TrackBack

Would really like to have two SIMs in my phone but can only have one so I choose to use it with a work SIM in it. Ideally I could simply switch to my personal SIM and do so much more!!! As I commented on Dina's blog, Orange in the UK have a Line 2 option but this doesn't fulfil my needs. Does anyone know of any solutions?
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I have the same problem. Pls let me know if you found any solution

Posted by: Ismail Ayhan at February 9, 2005 01:03 PM

Okay, so there are two options, but they're both complicated and a bit of a pain because have to either get hardware or find a small shop with the relevant hardware. You can clone your sim, and then take multiple sim clones and program them onto one sim card then put that in your phone. Or you can cut two sims of the right type and use them with a carrier card in your phone (not recommended) a google search on programmable sim will get you the info, but I'm not sure about the legality

Posted by: Harsh at March 2, 2005 04:31 PM

Alterantively, you can buy a new back cover for some mobile phones, usually nokia, that holds 2 sim cards, then has a cable that plugs intot he phones sim card. Then, every time you switch on the phone, it changes to the other sim card. Ok, so you still have to turn phone on and off, but at least you don't have to dismantle it each time. Try m-99.com, they have them

Posted by: Steve at July 5, 2005 04:30 PM