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| Thread ID: 124046 | 2012-04-02 10:56:00 | Telecom Mobile Question | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 1268049 | 2012-04-02 10:56:00 | Cough :o I have er.......mislaid.... my Samsung S5511T cellphone, and since I use it very rarely, I don't recall when or where I last saw it. It could be in one of three airports ot two taxis, but one thing seems certain, it is not in my house, office, or car. I've tried calling it of course, but it is switched off. I can lodge an insurance claim, but before doing that, I had one thought: Can Telecom identify a phone by its serial number, or to phrase that a little better perhaps, do cell phones reveal their serial numbers to the network? My thoughts are that if somebody picked it up and put in a new sim card, once on the network I might have a chance of getting it back. I can't imagine anybody actually wanting to use it, given that it is plain vanilla, non-fruity, with no swipe screen, applets or any other other distracting stuff that seems to be de rigueur these days. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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| 1268050 | 2012-04-02 11:11:00 | Not sure about the serial, only IMEI I believe, though Telecom may be able to match the two. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1268051 | 2012-04-02 11:12:00 | It has a network identifier (similar to a MAC in networks) called the IMEI number, your SIM also broadcasts it's number (I think) so if your telco is nice they *might* track it to some degree. But if it's switched off, no cigar. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
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