What is a Blank Sim Card?

If a mobile phone has been cloned and the legitimate subscriber inserts the same sim card into some other phone with an obviously different ESN number, will the cloner still get service?

I always wondered why someone would need more than one SIM card until it happened to me. I carry a personal cell phone and business cell phone with me at all times.

Sometimes this can really be inconvenient, but my work phone takes a lot of abuse, and I like to have a personal phone that stays in better shape.

I somehow ended up losing my personal phone and never did find it. To this day I have no idea what happened to it and it has never turned up.

If I was going to lose a phone, this one was easier to replace than my work phone would have been. I have a lot of important contact numbers on my work phone that are important for my business.

There was a lot of information on my work phone that I could transfer over to my new personal phone. Even though this was frustrating, I realized how much worse it would have been if it had been the other way around.

Now I understand why some people insist on buying a blank SIM card as a back up.

I learned the hard way about how important it is to make sure you get the correct mobile phone SIM card.

I bought a blank SIM card online thinking it was the right one for my phone and it wasn't. Even though I wasn't out a lot of money, it was frustrating.

Not only was the one I ordered not any good for me, but I still had to turn around and order the correct one. This was my error because I didn't pay close enough attention to the correct card I needed.

I always feel better when I have an extra SIM card with identical information to what is on my phone. If I had to build my contact list all over again, it would take me a long time. Even then, there would probably be numbers I never got added that needed to be.

When my son was living in Chicago, he was robbed, and his new cell phone was one of the things that was taken from him.

With no identification or phone with important contacts on it, he hardly knew what to do. He also worried about the information on his SIM card getting in the wrong hands.

Even though it was information that only meant something to him, it was a strange feeling thinking a stranger had access to all of your contact information.

Many times when a phone is stolen like that, SIM card recovery is more important than the phone itself. He never did get his phone or his SIM card back and basically had to start from scratch again.

If anyone has valuable and personal information stored on their SIM card, I think it is smart to have some kind of SIM backup.

Many people don't worry about it because they always have their phone with them, but you never know what could happen. Your phone could easily be lost or stolen, and then you would have no way of retrieving your information.

When we were boating, my phone accidentally fell in the lake. The only good thing about that was I knew it wasn't stolen. I lost everything I had stored in my SIM card, and it was a hassle to start completely over again.

Now I always get a second card and have the important information transferred so I have a spare. Because I am continually adding information to the SIM card in my phone, it is not completely the same, but most of the crucial information is there.

@cloudel – It is possible if you have removed the SIM card in order to copy it. It is unlikely, but it did happen to me.

I had just taken the SIM card out of my phone to copy my files to another card when I heard a commotion outside my house. My dog was barking as if an intruder were approaching, so I leaned over the kitchen sink to get a good look out the window.

The garbage disposal was going at the time, because my mother had just turned it on to get rid of something. As I leaned over the sink, the SIM card slipped from my hand and fell into the garbage disposal. It got completely destroyed.

So, though it probably doesn't happen every day, sometimes, SIM cards do get destroyed apart from their cell phones. I used the blank one that I had already purchased, but I did have to re-enter all my numbers.

Is it possible to have your SIM card destroyed without the phone being demolished? I just wonder why anyone would request a replacement SIM card without a replacement phone.

I had both destroyed once. My phone had fallen out of my pocket, and I didn't know it. My puppy got it and turned it into a chew toy, and since she had strong teeth and jaws, she popped the whole thing open, destroying the keypad and the SIM card.

I had insurance on the phone, so I got a replacement. A blank SIM card was included. I don't think my puppy could have possibly destroyed the SIM card without also damaging the phone beyond repair, though.

@StarJo – It really gives you peace of mind to know that you have an extra SIM card with the duplicates of your data stored on it. My important information is in the form of phone numbers and email addresses instead of photos, and I rely heavily on it for my business.

I sell jewelry and art that I craft myself, and my client list is stored in my phone. If something were to happen to it, then all my contacts would be lost, and I would have no way to get in touch with repeat buyers. My business would suffer greatly.

So, after I had developed a substantial client list, I got a blank SIM card and copied my information to it. I keep the extra SIM card in a fireproof lock box.

I have a ton of pictures with sentimental value on my phone, so I got a blank SIM card to serve as a backup. I am always misplacing my phone or dropping it onto hard surfaces, so I have this fear that I will one day either lose it altogether or destroy it completely.

Many of the photos are of my dogs, and two of them have passed on, so I would be so upset if anything happened to these photographic memories. I decided to get the blank SIM card after my sister left her phone on the back of her car. It fell off, and she backed over it.

I could totally see that happening to me, so I went straight out and got the SIM card to do the backup. I feel a lot better knowing that my phone isn't the only container of these precious memories.

I do not use my 7" smart phone to make or receive calls. I would like a black sim card just to stop the annoying words, "Please insert a sim card."