It's not that simple. I just found this awesome FAQ attached to an eBay item, though, that really explains it all. If I post the link, it might disappear after the item isn't on eBay. Guess I'd better paste the whole thing here. ![]() Sim Cards for Reactivating GSM Tracfone and Net10 phones. (GSM means you have a Sim card) You will still need to buy airtime for your phone before it is usable. Reactivation merely registers it for use on the network. Depending on how long your phone has been inactive, you may or may not be able to reactivate it with the same phone number you had. ![]() Mar 31, 2015. Net10 is a prepaid wireless reseller that uses both CDMA and GSM handsets, depending on the coverage area. You can activate the SIM card online or over the phone using. Buy Net 10 Activation Sim Card Kit with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg! AT&T PREPAID SIM Card Kit (Phone) AT&T SIM for AT&T PREPAID (Phone) devices. All you have to do is insert it into your phone and activate your service at att.com. Transfer my existing NET10 Business phone number to a new phone. Transfer from another company. Enter your SIM card number found on your red activation card. The general rule is that after 30 days of being inactive, the number returns to a pool of numbers that can be claimed by new customers. However, sometimes the number is still available. If it is not, you will receive a new number. Visit the TracFone website or if you prefer to have a live person walk you through the process, or if you have questions specific to your phone and situation, you can also reactivate with a live agent by calling 800-867-7183 for customer service. Tracfone and Net10 are both owned by the same company. Their support is provided by the same customer service people and comes from the same support centers. They both use the same sim cards. Their new sim cards can be used in any gsm phone for either Tracfone or Net10. Tracfone's phones cannot be used for Net10 and Net10 phones cannot be used for Tracfone. Once a sim card is placed in a phone and the phone is powered up, the sim card is locked to that phone and can never be used in another phone. If you place a new sim card in any phone, active or not and turn the phone on then the sim card is useless except for possible future use in that phone. You cannot swap active sim cards in Tracfone and Net10 phones like you can with other gsm carrier's phones. Tracfone and Net10 phones have proprietary firmware in the phones that will only recognize their sim cards. Also, their sim cards will not work in any phone that does not have their firmware in it. You cannot unlock a Tracfone like you can with other gsm phones. In order to make one of Tracfone's phones usable with another carrier you would have to flash (replace) the firmware in the phone with a different firmware. This would also render the phone unusable on the Tracfone system. Reports indicate that phones unlocked by other methods will only work until the minute bank in the phone reaches zero, then it will no longer work. Generally a sim card that has not had a phone number assigned to it will produce an 'unregistered sim' message on the phone. All sims are unregistered until assigned a number and activated by a carrier. An active sim or previously active sim placed in another phone, other than the one it is locked to, will usually produce a 'sim reject' message on the phone. Usually you can't even access the menu to transfer contact information from an old sim to a new phone. Tracfone and Net10 do not have their own cellular system in the US. They resell service provided by other carriers. The two gsm providers they use are At&t & T-Mobile. Each provider needs a different sim card to communicate with their system. Currently their are 3 different sim cards used by Tracfone and Net10. Two are used for service provided by At&t, and the third is used for service provided by T-Mobile. The At&t cards are designated by C4 (Cingular) and the T-Mobile sim cards are designated by T5 (T-Mobile). The two At&t cards are basically the same except for storage capacity. The TFSIMC4 is the older sim card. The TF64SIMC4 is the newer card and has more storage capacity. The T-Mobile card is labeled TFSIMT5. These markings can be seen on the sim card without removing it from the phone. The sim card is located in the battery compartment underneath the battery. There are two distinctions between the card serial numbers which will help to determine which card you have in your phone without having to remove the card or the battery. The C4 card serial numbers have 20 digit and start with 890141. The T-Mobile card serial numbers have 19 digits and start with 890126. To see the whole serial number on the card you would have to remove it from the phone or you can access your sim card serial number in your phones prepaid menu. To determine which carrier's sim card is packaged with a phone you can look for the model number on the sticker where the serial number bar code is for the phone. Phones packaged with At&t sim cards have P4 at the end of the model number, example TFC139P4. Phones packaged with T-Mobile sim cards have P5 at the end of the model number, example TFC139P5. When transferring service from one phone to another the sim card in the new phone should be for the same service provider as the sim card in the old phone. • Tell us some more • Upload in Progress • Upload failed. 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