New sim card only deal

sausage_time

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oldernonethewiser

Try and put the new SIM in your phone at the beginning of the week, eg Monday or Tuesday, as if there are any snags things can take a little longer and everything seems to grind to a halt over the weekend which can be an inconvenience. 

Magpie123456

Oldernonethewiser- Thanks for the advice.
So, to clarify, does this mean that I will have a different number for a while? Until the "change over original' number kicks in?
TIA  😺 

outtatune

OP, do you have an Android/Apple smartphone?

In ye olde days of candy bar phones with actual keypad buttons on them (remember Nokia?) then it was indeed common for contacts to be stored on the sim rather than the phone.

If you have one of those phones then you will probably need to back up the sim's contents to the phone; there will be an option in the phone menu somewhere.

oldernonethewiser

Magpie123456 said:

Oldernonethewiser- Thanks for the advice.
So, to clarify, does this mean that I will have a different number for a while? Until the "change over original' number kicks in?
TIA  😺 

Yes.  Until the change happens you will.  Hopefully not too long.

Magpie123456

outtatune said:

OP, do you have an Android/Apple smartphone?

In ye olde days of candy bar phones with actual keypad buttons on them (remember Nokia?) then it was indeed common for contacts to be stored on the sim rather than the phone.

If you have one of those phones then you will probably need to back up the sim's contents to the phone; there will be an option in the phone menu somewhere.

I believe it's an android smartphone 
I remember the olden day phones, they had 3 letters on each number, meaning texting took forever. eg it could mean  hitting each key up to 3 times, just to display 1 digit in a text