"pete" <pete@cat5org.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "ioan davies" <ioan_davies@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Hello All
>> A friend of mine has just had his phone stolen.He has reported it to
>> three and they have disabled the sim.What he wants to know is,would the
>> phone still work if someone put a new three sim card in it,as all three
>> said they had done was disabled the sim card as it was on a contract.
>>
>> Hope this is understandable,as this is all the information I have at
>> this moment from my friend.
>>
>> Thanks A Lot
> Yes it will still work,

No it won't.

>so tell him not to go selling it on ebay!

Eh? Not everyone is as bent as you are.

> Phone companies often allow phones to be used, it's a loss of revenue if
> they don't.

That used to be true in the case of Vodafone, but it was many years ago.

> There is nothing to stop your friend taking it to a shop and having the
> IMEI changed for a tenner first.

Yeah right. And what shop is going to risk a five year stretch in prison
and a potentially unlimted fine to change the IMEI on a handset of some
unknown twonk that walks in off the street? Even if they were daft enough
to tamper qwith IMEIs, they wouldn't be stupid enough to do it for anyone
they didn't know.

> People often think of phone insurance as a cheap way to upgrade.
> Unless you're extremely careless you shouldn't need it.

Whilst I agree with the sentiment, accidents do happen, and you are still
clueless.

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