Courts Rule Employers Can Search Employee Text Messages
Another reason for dual-sim phones...
Physical property rights ALWAYS has to trump abstract property rights. Most likely, in a dual-SIM phone scenario, it would depend on who purchased the phone. Otherwise, they would have to subpoena the cell phone records from the company(which I don't know how realistic this is for digging up text messages since this stuff gets buried in a flurry of log messages).
Companies and Gov't agencies that pay ones cell phone bill is a nice perk, but these people ought to realize that all that not their property and they should use some discretion.
My company pays my cell phone bill and I don't like to t...
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Most of dual SIM's primary use case right now is in poorer countries where people tend to aggressively price shop different carriers and frequently switch between two different services to get a better price. Although with simultaneous access, that might be changing.
Unfortunately, carriers in the US don't want you shopping two different services for their subsidized phones. I doubt this kind of feature will be available any time soon.
On top of that, many of the dual SIM phones are low end phones(given the market), which means you may not get a higher end phone you might want even if you were willing to purchase an unlock...
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kingstu said:
Keep your personal life and your business life separate and still only carry one device. Who wants to start making dual-sim smart phones?
That would great if the company's phone service is AT&T or T-Mobile. That won't work if the company uses Sprint or Verizon Wireless. My last job provided select employees Sprint phones. So those employees would need 2 phones to separate business & personal use.
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