You can just swap the two I did that when I went to my charge from the t bolt just put the same Sim in the charge

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Originally Posted by loonatik78

Well, 2 reasons.... First, 4G phones are hardly the first verizon phones to use SIMs. Verizon and Alltel have had at least 1 or 2 phones out for about 4 years now that came with SIMs. The BB 8830, 9530, 9550, 9630, 9650, Droid X2 global, and one other Motorola Droid I can't think of. Second, none of those devices required the card to work just fine. That's the cause of my initial assumption. I've read some things that lead me to believe that's not the case, but I haven't found the white papers I'm looking for to better understand it.

That's a somewhat different thing. Those were CDMA "world" phones with a separate GSM radio that accepted a GSM SIM card if you were travelling overseas.

In the case of the LTE SIM, that thing has your entire account tied to it; not just the data portion. In this case, dropping in a new LTE SIM "reprograms" the phone to use the account tied to the new SIM. On every boot, the SIM is read for the account data, and the phone (or other LTE device) is then hooked up to the applicable service. Just like pure GSM devices.

You can swap cards between 4G phones exactly like GSM. Been doing it with my trusty bolt and rezound for a while. However if I went from a 4G enabled phone to 3G phone(be it world phone with a sim or not) then it WILL NOT WORK. But.from 4G to 4G ur fine. Its only a matter of time until Verizon is a CDMA based company that relies on SIM cards exclusively. Which wud be a 1st but only due to LTE and its use of a SIM card

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I know it will work but could vzw have any beef with me if I buy a used rezound from ebay and just pop in my sim card without telling them anything about it?

RecDNA- assuming you already have a 4g phone no verizon has no issue with you switching the sim over.

I even bought and tried a 4g hotspot today. It worked with my bionic unlimited data. Online it showed I changed my device but my plan stayed. Back to the phone with nothing lost. Its a requirement of the 700mhz block the government sold.

I am not sure if verizon can burn me for 3g hotspot usage since it isn't covered by the government rules.

I went and disabled 3g on my samsung jetpack lte hotspot so it is a 4g only device. Maybe it wont work everywhere but I think* it makes me safer. Experts can correct me if they know better.



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