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

treez
Established Contributor
Established Contributor

‎10-09-2021 05:53 PM

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)

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bristolian
EE Community Star
EE Community Star
In response to treez

‎11-09-2021 11:16 AM

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.

EssexBoyEE
Ace Contributor
Ace Contributor
In response to treez

‎11-09-2021 11:17 AM

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.

treez
Established Contributor
Established Contributor
In response to EssexBoyEE

‎11-09-2021 12:27 PM

[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

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