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Changing my mobile phone handset - bought independently

stowei — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 11:14:30 GMT

I have searched the community but couldn't find this. I have a SIM-only mobile contract with BT until July of this year. I think that the handset may have been on a BT device + air-time contract previously, but I don't change my handset very often, and I think BT allowed me to keep my old handset and move to SIM-only after the handset was a few years old.

I now want to buy a new handset. I want to keep my dealings with BT as simple as possible, because I hate not being able to speak to real people or email real people. So I will buy a new handset outright from Apple. It will have the same size SIM as my current handset (I will make sure of that). Can I just move the SIM from old handset to new? Do I even need to tell BT - which doubtless wouldn't be easy?

Thanks

Re: Changing my mobile phone handset - bought independently

garybs29 — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:21:16 GMT

Yes. No need to overthink things or contact them, a sim only is exactly that a sim to use in whatever phone you want

Re: Changing my mobile phone handset - bought independently

Crimliar — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 13:05:01 GMT

If you are lucky everything will happen automatically, if not then all you need are the settings found here: https://www.bt.com/help/mobile/getting-set-up/setting-up-a-phone-and-features/how-do-i-manually-set-up-my-mobile-phone-for-mms-
Its all pretty simple and easy to follow!