Technology Can two cell phones share the same number?

[Ranger47]

I have Cingular. Can I just get another SIM card and stick it in another cell phone so that two phones can share the same number? Thanks!

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[16846]

You should be able to just "clone" the sim and it should work. Unless they lock the sim/your account to a particular handset, but even in that case, you can probably have them just add the serial ID for the 2nd phone to your account.

As far as I am aware, they don't care how many phones you have with the same number, they all pull from the same account.

I know it works the other way around when you "splice" two sims into one phone and you can have two numbers, or even two providers, for one phone.

 

[Ranger47]

You should be able to just "clone" the sim and it should work. Unless they lock the sim/your account to a particular handset, but even in that case, you can probably have them just add the serial ID for the 2nd phone to your account.

As far as I am aware, they don't care how many phones you have with the same number, they all pull from the same account.

I know it works the other way around when you "splice" two sims into one phone and you can have two numbers, or even two providers, for one phone.

How do I go about doing that? Should I just go to Cingular and ask them?

 

[fielight]

you would need to contact Cingular for this kind of "cloning"... but from what i've heard, the us carriers really don't do that. (and this isn't a diy job, and not even if you go to a professional.) it can't hurt to ask, though.

 

[Ranger47]

Ya, I figured they wouldn't be too excited about it. I emailed them about getting another SIM card, so we'll see what they say.

 

[16846]

How do I go about doing that? Should I just go to Cingular and ask them?

Nah, go to somewhere like chinatown and have them do it. All the providers will do it in the UK for something like 5 GBPs...