Duplicate sim

Is at all possible to have 2 sim cards for the same number?
Reason is I would like to leave one phone in the car (has features for
headset which other phone does not have) and then have the other phone
for general everyday (non-car) use.
It seems a hassle to swap the sim card each time and wondered if I can
therefore have duplicate sim cards?
Thanks very much.

©® wrote:
> Is at all possible to have 2 sim cards for the same number?
> Reason is I would like to leave one phone in the car (has features for
> headset which other phone does not have) and then have the other phone
> for general everyday (non-car) use.

Vodafone offer such a service.

Colin Forrester wrote:
> ©® wrote:
>> Is at all possible to have 2 sim cards for the same number?
>> Reason is I would like to leave one phone in the car (has features
>> for headset which other phone does not have) and then have the other
>> phone for general everyday (non-car) use.
>
> Vodafone offer such a service.

Orange do also.

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"Colin Forrester" <colin@thefrogslepthere.com> wrote in
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> ©® wrote:
> > Is at all possible to have 2 sim cards for the same
> > number? Reason is I would like to leave one phone in the car
> > (has features for headset which other phone does not
> > have) and then have the other phone for general
> > everyday (non-car) use.
>
> Vodafone offer such a service.

At a price and with considerable loss of functionality.

Ivor

"Abo" <no@spam.thanks> wrote in message
news:Axuhg.11644$lQ.4308@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net
> Colin Forrester wrote:
> > ©® wrote:
> > > Is at all possible to have 2 sim cards for the same
> > > number? Reason is I would like to leave one phone in the car
> > > (has features for headset which other phone does not
> > > have) and then have the other phone for general
> > > everyday (non-car) use.
> >
> > Vodafone offer such a service.
>
> Orange do also.

Only for business customers.

Ivor

Depending on how old the SIM is you can get so called Super SIMs on
Ebay which allows you to create a 'back up' of your SIM. You cannot do
this with modern SIMs. Have a Google.

Regards

Ivor Jones wrote:

>>> Is at all possible to have 2 sim cards for the same
>>> number? Reason is I would like to leave one phone in the car
>>> (has features for headset which other phone does not
>>> have) and then have the other phone for general
>>> everyday (non-car) use.
>> Vodafone offer such a service.
>
> At a price and with considerable loss of functionality.

Price might not be an issue for the poster - it certainly isn't for my
colleagues who use the facility in their expensive cars - but besides
the lack of GPRS what else is lost?

The Vodafone service that allows you to share the same number between
different devices is called multi SIM. It's available to all
customers.

You can have up to 10 devices, and use these for voice, text, fax and
GSM Circuit Switched Data (CSD - mobile internet dial up).

You can't use GPRS or 3G with multi SIM, and you won't be able to
send multimedia messages.

You can have a look at this service on www.vodafone.co.uk/business, by
clicking 'calling' and then 'multi SIM'.

Ivor Jones wrote:
|| "Abo" <no@spam.thanks> wrote in message
|| news:Axuhg.11644$lQ.4308@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net
||| Colin Forrester wrote:
|||| ©® wrote:
||||| Is at all possible to have 2 sim cards for the same
||||| number? Reason is I would like to leave one phone in the car
||||| (has features for headset which other phone does not
||||| have) and then have the other phone for general
||||| everyday (non-car) use.
||||
|||| Vodafone offer such a service.
|||
||| Orange do also.
||
|| Only for business customers.
||
|| Ivor

You could easily replicate it, though, providing you were happy to with-hold
your number on one of the phones & use call diversion on the other, without
any loss of functionality.

Portable - set to divert calls to the "car phone" when unavailable & turn
off when getting in the car.

Car phone - with-hold number so as not to confuse any one you call.

If you get 2 phones on the same account which allows calls between users to
be free, there is no apparent cost for the diversion.

> Price might not be an issue for the poster - it certainly isn't for my
> colleagues who use the facility in their expensive cars - but besides
> the lack of GPRS what else is lost?

Actually...I work for a charity! :-)

I don't want to use both sims at the same time. I just want to have the
one sim in the phone (for the car) so that I just switch it on and off
for that use and the other sim in my everyday use phone so that when I
am not in the car, I can use that most of the time. (Just don't want to
keep switching sims between two phones!)

©® wrote:

>> Price might not be an issue for the poster - it certainly isn't for my
>> colleagues who use the facility in their expensive cars - but besides
>> the lack of GPRS what else is lost?
>
> Actually...I work for a charity! :-)

So do I - or rather I volunteer my services to three charities in the UK
and one in Romania :-)

However if your charity isn't loaded with money then you are not going
to find a cheap enough solution.