Help, Selling Phone, Have Questions.

I am selling my old AT&T NEC 525 Cell Phone and I had a question about the old sim card, is there a way to clear it so my number is not on there? Also is there anyway I could be charged for calls made on the phone? I have a new Cingular phone now with a new cingular sim card but the same phone number. Any info would be great. Thanks.


--Matt

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Your best bet is to sell the phone without the sim card and just throw yours away. I haven't heard of anyone being able to successfully reprogram a card (or successfully getting cingular to do it). Just inform the buyer it comes without a SIM card and they can get one at any Cingular store.

The towers identify your SIM card with your account. So if the phone has your SIM card in it, it's being charged to your account (regardless of who owns the phone).

If you remove your SIM car and sell the hardware with out it, you should be fine. At least there is no way Cingular or other providers would bill you for someone else making calls with the device unless your SIM card is still in it. Just taking out your SIM card will not let you or anyone else make calls with it.

Some phones will let you store information (i.e. part of your address book) right into the phone's memory and not the SIM card memory, but check your manual. There is defenitely a way you can clear the phone cache/memory, and you probably want to make sure this stuff stays private.

Thanks guys.