T-Mobile Crafts New 'Embedded SIM'
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get rid of sim cards
I wish they would get rid of sim cards, that would just about stop the massive world wide theft of gsm phones. If one of my customers has a Sprint or Verizon phone stolen, I call it in and that phone is then dead, good for parts only or by using gps the carrier can tell me where the phone is if it is on. If my at&t or T-Mobile customer has their phone stolen, the thief has a new phone and the customer is out of luck. I think with todays technology they could come up with a better way to allow multi-network multi-technology use without having to remove a sim card, maybe with just an access code and your numbers could be kept on a micro sd. Blackberry has some nice multi-network phones..just a thought..
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that is actually not true, if a T-Mobile or AT&T customer loses a phone or its stolen the sim can be killed remotely you do not need to remove the sim from the phone to stop them from using minutes on their account.
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I believe the emphasis was on the point that a stolen GSM phone can be used by putting in a new SIM; whereas a CDMA phone can be rendered useless by flagging the ESN to not allow it to be activated.
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