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Old July 14th 19, 03:04 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Dual SIM phones was:Worker killed by Southern train was covering for brother

In message , at 14:31:13 on Sun, 14 Jul
2019, tim... remarked:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 11:09:30 on Sun, 14 Jul
2019, tim... remarked:

I'm not sure how many phones ever took the full size SIM.

Commercial considerations killed them off: the idea was that a
person would have a SIM, and be able to share/borrow a phone to use


But the networks wanted to tie people into having their own phone
(and contract) in particular not wanting a phone they'd subsidised
being used with a SIM from a rival network,

They solved that problem by having phones "network" locked

My "acquired" smart phone still is


Is still what. Locked? That's hardly unusual.


I know

but you seemed not to understand it as the solution to people "sharing"
phones by swapping SIMs in/out


Do keep up: "[Opportunities open up] Even on a locked phone because
(for example) GiffGaff and Tesco both use O2, and Virgin/Orange/T-Mobile
all share EE."
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Roland Perry