T-Mobile Multi Sim musings
I had a look in the T-Mobile shop on Fleet Street on Friday. I was doing that wandering-but-possibly-up-for-an-impulse-buy thing, and whilst the salesman approached me and asked if I needed help, he didn’t quite pick up on my, ‘well, the last time I called, I was offered a second line…so…’
I could have been upsold, I reckon.
Although there were no handsets that really caught my eye at all. Nice shops. Stupid, though. Every handset is a plastic knock-off. Whenever I see these plastic shitty handsets now, I am reminded of the presentation that Cliff Crosbie, top marketing chap at Nokia, gave at Nokia World recently. He was nigh on foaming at the mouth with annoyance at the way mobile phones are sold with customers only allowed to fumble cheapo plastic models to help with their buying decisions.
Anyway I glanced at the Sony Ericsson K800. You know I could be very much persuaded. The salesman wasn’t picking up on my hints and I wasn’t really minded to assist much more than hinting so I walked out.
However when I got home and read Russell’s post about T-Mobile Germany offering customers Multi Sim services, I started thinking. Apparently, you can apply to get three sim cards from T-Mobile Germany. Each with the same number. So you can now have three devices with the same number, operating on the same account. If someone rings you, all three devices ring — until you answer one of them.
That rocks.
I did some research. It seems this service is offered by T-Mobile UK business.
That’s what I need.
I need to be able to wake up in the morning and select my device for that day. It might be the E61. Or the K800. Or perhaps the new iPhone, or something else. Or the N93! Either way, there’s one number. I like this a lot. That is my next solution requirement I think.
I’ll phone T-Mobile shortly.
