Ho to habe two SIMs for two devices (only one active at a time) under same phone number?

GMussenden1 wrote:

Who actually declared this case SOLVED when it isn’t?

Apparently Verizon has a service where the subscriber declares which SIM is active: https://community.verizon.com/t5/Other-Phones/Can-I-get-a-second-SIM-card-for-the-same-phone-number/td-p/1038022

Thank you for sharing that Verizon Community link. The OP is asking for the same thing that you are looking for and the answers there are the same that you are receiving here. Your main phone number is allowed to have one sim card linked to it. There is no way to put the same phone number on a different sim card or to "print" a second sim card with the same phone/sim number on it. I also saw that someone linked Verizon's Number Share service. I read the terms and feature details for that on the linked website, and it looks like it works just like our Digits. Number Share - Mobile allows you to make and receive calls using one shared telephone number across all of your Number Share - Mobile capable Verizon LTE devices (for eligible devices). Your host smartphone's phone number ("host line") is shared by all eligible extension devices. Calls are received and sent from this shared line. Your extension device will also have its own line that will be reflected on your bill.

I know this is not the answer that you want, but the only way to share one phone number to different devices without moving your sim card around from phone to phone is through the digital features (Digits). 

The system can only store and provision one SIM at a time for a single phone number.  

What above has said.  In other countries you can sim dupe but it has caveats. The closest you can it a digits line and pair your number to both.

Gracias @tidbits for bringing up Digits! Datos con DIGITS para dispositivo vinculado proporciona un número en múltiples dispositivos. You can find more information on our Comienza a usar DIGITS | Asistencia de T-Mobile . 

No, @HeavenM . DIGITS es NO the answer, I simply want to have one device at a time without swapping SIMs, not a complex proxy management system to handle multiple active devices at a time!

Who actually declared this case SOLVED when it isn’t?

Apparently Verizon has a service where the subscriber declares which SIM is active: https://community.verizon.com/t5/Other-Phones/Can-I-get-a-second-SIM-card-for-the-same-phone-number/td-p/1038022

Ok, @HeavenM, quite simply the DIGITS app (https://www.t-mobile.com/apps/t-mobile-digits) is absolutely useless to me, it's unnecessarily complex (hence the $10/month charge) and intended for multiple device shadowing.  I was simply looking for a mechanism to switch between which SIM is active (either tacitly by powering down one phone before turning on the other or explicitly by a management web site/app).  That's a simple service that perhaps you can charge $10/year.

Anyhow, thanks very much!

GMussenden1 wrote:

Ok, @HeavenM, quite simply the DIGITS app (https://www.t-mobile.com/apps/t-mobile-digits) is absolutely useless to me, it's unnecessarily complex (hence the $10/month charge) and intended for multiple device shadowing.  I was simply looking for a mechanism to switch between which SIM is active (either tacitly by powering down one phone before turning on the other or explicitly by a management web site/app).  That's a simple service that perhaps you can charge $10/year.

 

Anyhow, thanks very much!

It's EXACTLY the same thing.  You pay per line on Verizon too.  I also don't see phones as Connected device plans in their terms so I am unsure you even get the option you are looking for,

1. Number Share - Mobile Features. Number Share - Mobile allows you to make and receive calls using one shared telephone number across all of your Number Share - Mobile capable Verizon LTE devices (for eligible devices). Your host smartphone's phone number ("host line") is shared by all eligible extension devices. Calls are received and sent from this shared line. Your extension device will also have its own line that will be reflected on your bill. Features and requirements vary by device. Number Share - Mobile works with compatible devices on the following wireless plans: Postpaid Verizon 2.0/1.0, More Everything, Share Everything, and Unlimited (a single-line is not eligible for Number Share - Mobile). Number Share - Mobile will only work while on the Verizon LTE Network.

To use Number Share - Mobile, all of your devices must be on the same standard account or business account* with either:

• An Unlimited plan - Your connected device must also have its own separate connected device plan.
• A shared data plan - Your monthly data allowance is shared with your connected devices. (Shared Data plans are no longer available to add to accounts).

*Not available for prepaid or government accounts at this time.

I think you are right @tidbits, @HeavenM! I believe this https://www.singtel.com/business/support/faq-closure-of-multisim article properly explains the situation (perhaps T-Móvil ought to have a similar article) and we would have had a much shorter discussion!  So it seems that what I asked used to be very reasonable before but not so anymore!

Thus I'll rest my case (at least for now) as I need to study and understand why the 5G system imposed the limitation to the simple (single device at a time) scenario I intended to do.  Meanwhile perhaps you can investigate if there's some way of having an abridged (i.e. much less expensive) version of DIGITS that accomplishes what I intended to do or if you uncover a solution to the 5G dilemma.

Thanks so much,

Georg

GMussenden1 wrote:

I think you are right @tidbits, @HeavenM! I believe this https://www.singtel.com/business/support/faq-closure-of-multisim article properly explains the situation (perhaps T-Móvil ought to have a similar article) and we would have had a much shorter discussion!  So it seems that what I asked used to be very reasonable before but not so anymore!

Thus I'll rest my case (at least for now) as I need to study and understand why the 5G system imposed the limitation to the simple (single device at a time) scenario I intended to do.  Meanwhile perhaps you can investigate if there's some way of having an abridged (i.e. much less expensive) version of DIGITS that accomplishes what I intended to do or if you uncover a solution to the 5G dilemma.

Thanks so much,

Georg

GSMA would need to set a standard for this to work.  They have not as of 3G being retired moving forward to do such things.  Since everything is a data line and not a voice line anymore.

You only option is to switch sims when you want to change devices.