Same Mobile number for two phones?

watcherman

Your implication is that it isn't possible, and isn't legal. You provided no alternative, just a succinct and incorrect answer.

The OP's first sentence, if you'd known about Orange, would surely have led to a fuller, more useful answer. You didn't know, hence your incorrect answer IMO

robt_2

watcherman wrote: »

Your implication is that it isn't possible, and isn't legal. You provided no alternative, just a succinct and incorrect answer.

No, it is a correct answer for the OP. You still haven't told me why it isn't. As you either can't or are unwilling to do so, I don't see the point in me checking this thread any more just to see your smug attitude.

watcherman

In my opinion, the "and legal" was a smug answer, if you knew of Orange, why didn't you offer it as an alternative?

The OP is on Virgin, didn't emphasise that he must remain on Virgin, and his opening sentence is Does anybody know if it's possible to get your Mobile service provider to provide you with a second Sim card so that you can use two phones with the same telephone number? so rather than a "smug" as you put it "legal" comment, why not suggest an alternative if you know of one?

You replied as though that was an authoritative response as to the legality of having 2nd sims.

epz_2

i recon you could probably make an sms scheduler program that would redirect all inbound txts to a different no with a prefixed header and extract the header from txts send from a predefined number and route them out.

on a linux box like the nokia n900 you could likely script it but that still leaves the outbound calls issue, unlikely to be solvable unless your drop phone was seriously high end also and possibly you could hack together something in skpe.