You can activate an iPhone using a cellular network, Wifi connection, or with the help of iTunes. If you do not use any of these methods, you will not be able to set up your device. If you don’t activate your iPhone, you can’t transfer data from an old device or restore an old backup …
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If you’ve upgraded to a new mobile phone, you may want to use the same SIM card as before. But is it possible to use your old SIM card on a new phone? You can use your SIM card from an old phone in a new phone as long as the SIM is from the …
An unlocked phone is not restricted to a carrier and gives you a choice to switch to another network provider. If you buy a new unlocked phone, do you need to activate it in order to switch to your preferred carrier? You must activate an unlocked phone to make it active on the carrier’s network. …
When you buy an unlocked smartphone through Best Buy, you can choose to “activate today” or “activate later” . What is the difference? “Activate today” means the phone comes with a service plan and a new SIM card from a supported carrier, with a discounted device price. “Activate later” means you can use a SIM …
Straight Talk is a popular prepaid carrier that offers excellent rates on service. If you have a Straight Talk phone, you may wonder if you can use it with AT&T service. To switch your Straight Talk phone to AT&T, your device must be compatible with the AT&T network. Secondly, you need to make sure that …
When a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card is inserted into your mobile device, you can connect to a carrier’s network and make cellular calls and send text messages. It’s also possible to make calls without a SIM card as almost all smartphones have a Wi-Fi function that connects you to the internet. Read on to …
In the pre-cellular era, phone lines meant telephone wires physically connected to a circuit. Nowadays, in the cellular world, a line means a service number provided by a network carrier. Read on to learn how about phone lines and phone numbers relate to each other and adding new lines to your mobile device. Is a …
If you buy a used phone to avoid the high price of a brand new one, you may find your phone is blacklisted, which prevents it from connecting to a cellular network. What does blacklisting mean and how does a phone get blacklisted in the first place? Is there a way to get around this? …
If your SIM card is locked, your mobile device will ask you to enter the PIN (Personal Identification Number) or PUK (PIN Unlocking Key) What is a locked SIM card, why does it get locked, and how do you permanently unlock it to have it working again? Keep reading to get answers to those questions …
Do you need to deactivate an old phone to activate the new one? Does it automatically get deactivated? Can you have multiple active phones at the same time? This article will help you get answers to those questions and other related ones. What happens to my old phone when I activate a new one? An …