SIM Cards and Activating Phones

[Spencer]

My work provides me with a smartphone, and were nice enough to upgrade my older Droid 3 to an iPhone 5s.

I've turned on the new 5s, and programmed in my Apple ID, but apparently still need to activate the cell service since I can't yet make any calls.

As my personal cell phone, I have an iPhone 5.

Hypothetically speaking, could I take the SIM card from my iPhone 5, and put it into the 5s, and then take the SIM card from the Droid 3 and put it into the iPhone 5?

I ask because I would like to 'steal' the 5s for myself, and use the 5 as my work phone.

[Spencer]

If the first part works, and my company-provided data plan gets activated onto the 5, and my own personal family plan gets activated onto the new 5s, then will the tethering/hotspot service that my company now pays for also transfer over without a hitch?

I would think the answet is yes, since that is part of the service plan, and not tied into the hardware on the phone, but I need to make sure.

[Count Orlok]

Most smart phones use microSIM but the 5S uses a nano. I think you can cut a micro down to nano or use an adapter to go back to micro. 

[Mudville]

Your company was nice enough to give you a new phone and now you want to steal it from them? You really, really, really need to be fired.

And give back the phone.

[Spencer]

Well it worked.

I swapped SIM cards between my 5 and the company's 5s, then activated the new card that I put in the 5.

Its not so much theft as it is me wanting to get the most mileage out of a new phone.

All I do on my work phone is make calls and send emails, hardly worth having a brand new 5s for.

[mrwicked]

should work fine.

you can buy an unlocked, sim-free 5s right now. 

just need a sim that works with GSM.

 

but dual phones (work vs personal) will be ancient technology soon once things become virtualized - thus you can have multiple personas on a single device.

vmware already does this but only for a handful of phones at this point. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Your company was nice enough to give you a new phone and now you want to steal it from them? You really, really, really need to be fired.

And give back the phone.

 

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who sees this as more of an ethical problem than a technical one.