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Old July 17th 19, 08:44 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

On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:21:44 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:39:30 on Sun, 14 Jul
2019, remarked:
Of course back when 2G phones first came out the SIM was on a card you could
switch cards easily in seconds but presumably that was deemed too convenient


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


Probably all of the early 90s ones because the original 2G SIMs were only
available as a full sized card, there was no facility to pop the chip out into
a smaller form factor without using scissors.

for users whereupon inserting the SIM was changed to require removing the
battery and messing about trying to get some sum postage sized thing into a
tiny slot at an awkward angle.


That's more to do with shrinking phone sizes. It doesn't have to be that


Probably. Shame things have gone in the opposite direction since 2007.

Since when has buying PAYG SIMs for most networks ever been a problem? You

talk
as if they're a rarity.


Ones where the credit rolls over and you don't have to make a regular
calls to keep them alive, aren't quite as common as you claim. The
networks hate them because they tend to get used in "glovebox" phones
were they have all the costs of maintaining the number and the billing
records, for virtually no revenue.


Oh come on, its costs them precisely £0.00 to maintain a number, its simply
data in a database.

Then there's a few phones which need a "5v" SIM, and don't work with a
3v one. Those SIMs are getting harder to find (some say that it's only
Pound-shop Orange SIMs these days, although I have a very old T-Mobile
SIM which is compliant).


Never realised there were 2 types of chips. Presumably the 5V are the early
types of SIM?