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Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

treez — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:53:04 GMT

Hi,
I have a home broadband internet account with EE. I have a 4GEE-router-Q57Z (Model B625-261). It is a 100GB account.

I also have a Samsung SM-J330FN smart phone. This smart phone now has no account associated with it, as i didnt use it for a long time. So i cant use the smart phone. When i used it i was with o2.

Now i wonder if i can use the sim card in my EE router with my Samsung smart phone?

I need this as i now need to do zoom meetings when i am out on the road.

(Incidentally, i also have a small "bar of soap" size mobile phone which is on a EE pay as you go account. I wish to keep this phone as its nice and small and easy to carry about, so its my main phone)

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

bristolian — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:20:22 GMT

Hi @treez

So long as the SIM will physically fit, you can use it in whatever device you choose. From a quick Google search, the router uses a Nano-size SIM, the Samsung J3 is a micro-size, so you'll need an adapter of some kind.

If the phone is locked to O2, then you will only be able to use an O2 SIM with it - or will need to get it unlocked to accept a non-O2 SIM.

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

treez — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:26:40 GMT

Thankyou.

I think my wifi sim has different sim card sizes within it......is it ok to just turn off the router and take out the sim card so i can check it to see if it can be adjusted to a micro size sim card...or can this damage the router?

Also, do you know where i can go to get the smartphone unlocked from O2, so i can get EE service instead using my wifi account?

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

Christopher_B — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 06:50:55 GMT

Hi @treez

I hope you're well and having a nice weekend, are you up to much?

You can take the SIM out without damaging the router, that's not an issue.

To get the O2 phone unlocked you'll need to have a chat with O2.

Thanks

Chris

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

treez — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 09:45:48 GMT

Thanks, i guess to get unlocked from 02 i have to go in to an 02 shop?

I guess they arent going to be too receptive to the idea.

Is there no place i can email to get it unlocked over the web?

Another option is to look into buying an EE smartphone...........but they never seem to do "pick up from store", and i am always out at work when they come to deliver.

Presumably i can just buy an ee smartphone that uses the same size sim card as the one in my router, and then i can use that smartphone.?.....Also presumably EE wont send me a duplicate sim card so that i can just leave the sim card permanently in my wifi router...and also have one in an EE smartphone?

In all this i am assuming that since i pay monthly for a ee wifi account (with a "mobile router") , that i wouldnt need to pay any more to extend this to a smartphone aswell?

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

Christopher_B — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 09:57:18 GMT

Hi @treez

I'm not sure how O2 work when it comes to unlocking, however you should be able to request this no problem.

We can't send a replica SIM I'm afraid.

If you would like a phone from us then you can pop into one of our stores and they'll look into your options.

Thanks

Chris

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

treez — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:06:52 GMT

Thanks,

Sorry to keep asking.

If i order an EE smartphone over the web, (hopefully then pick it up from an EE shop on the weekend?) then presumably i dont have to pay any more money for the useage?, as i am already with "EE wifi mobile router"?

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

Christopher_B — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:09:15 GMT

@treez If you order a pay as you go phone then no, you'll only pay more if you sign up to a new contact.

Thanks

Chris

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

treez — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:11:48 GMT

Thanks,

So i guess what i want is to buy an EE smart phone, but without a contract (and nto pay as you go either)...then just keep taking the sim card out of my EE wifi router and putting it into the ee smartphone?

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

Christopher_B — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:14:35 GMT

@treez that would work great 😊

Thanks

Chris

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

bristolian — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:16:25 GMT

EE don't sell phones without a subscription of some kind - be that a monthly contract or PAYG with a compulsory initital topup.

If you buy an EE PAYG phone, you can't avoid the initial compulsory topup, but what you do with that topup & SIM after you've bought it, is entirely upto you.

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

EssexBoyEE — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:17:20 GMT

As @bristolian and @Christopher_B mentions if the Phone is Unlocked you can use the EE Sim in there for Data Use, word of warning though, if its a Data Only Sim Plan do not use it for Calls or Texts as you will be charge for Outside of your Allowance for them (Calls to 150 to EE should be fine, and check your Data Plan you may have 100 texts thrown in).

If and when its Unlocked and if its O2 Branded Phone you may have to Change and Setup the APN Settings to EE APN Settings in order to get the Internet working correctly.

Re: Can i use my EE router sim card in my smart phone?

treez — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 11:27:01 GMT

[quote/]If you buy an EE PAYG phone, you can't avoid the initial compulsory topup, but what you do with that topup & SIM after you've bought it, is entirely upto you.[quote/]

Thanks, so if i abuy an EE pay as you go smartphone, then i have to make sure that its sim compartment fits the sim thats in my "mobile EE wifi router"?.....otherwise, then when the compulsory top up has run out, i wont be able to use the smartphone with my "mobile ee router" sim card.

Also, woudl you count a zoom meeting as a "call"?.......i mean, i already do zoom meetings on my mobile ee router