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> But if I lose my phone my number is gone too since I always use prepaid. Writee is obviously NOT in Europe, where even to get a prepaid you need ID/passport.
by HenryBemis 7y ago
> But if I lose my phone my number is gone too since I always use prepaid.
Writee is obviously NOT in Europe, where even to get a prepaid you need ID/passport. That way you can keep the same number forever (if you abide to the "add funds even X months). I have phone numbers in 4 countries (that I tend to visit 'often' and all I need to do is add €$£10 every six months to keep them alive.
So one solution for that is to go to that ISP of yours and ask them to bind your number with your ID. And if you lose the SIM one way or another, you show up with your ID/passport and in 10mins you walk out with the same number.
- jotm 7y agoThat's not really true. Every SIM I ever got, no one ever asked me for actual ID. Yeah, some required me to fill in a page with my info, I could've written anything there. Doesn't that cause the opposite problem - for example, someone with access to your prepaid account could change that data and go clone your SIM?
- diffeomorphism 7y agoThat is definitely true in Germany. You can buy a sim at Aldi without ID, but you still need to activate it before using it. For that you need an ID.
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