topic Re: Wrong Sim Type in Get Support

Wrong Sim Type

StevieD44 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:01:44 GMT

I am new to Public Mobile. I just received my iPhone 7 and my new PM SIM card in the mail. However, the iPhone 7 uses a nano SIM card and I ordered a regular SIM card. What do I have to do? Will I incur extra costs?

Re: Wrong Sim Type

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:56:30 GMT

@StevieD44 wrote:
I am new to Public Mobile. I just received my iPhone 7 and my new PM SIM card in the mail. However, the iPhone 7 uses a nano SIM card and I ordered a regular SIM card. What do I have to do? Will I incur extra costs?

The SIM is what they call tri-punch. You can snap the smaller size out of the larger size...carefully.

Re: Wrong Sim Type

gblackma — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 21:01:27 GMT

Punch it down @StevieD44 to the nano card. Welcome to PM. Stay safe.

Re: Wrong Sim Type

Naepalm — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 21:02:18 GMT

@Anonymous has given you great instructions here is a picture.

The blue arrow is the large sim, the pink is a smaller sim and the orange is the nano it should snap out.

Re: Wrong Sim Type

geopublic — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 21:14:12 GMT

@StevieD44 wrote:
I am new to Public Mobile. I just received my iPhone 7 and my new PM SIM card in the mail. However, the iPhone 7 uses a nano SIM card and I ordered a regular SIM card. What do I have to do? Will I incur extra costs?

@StevieD44 No worries it's a tri-punch card:

Re: Wrong Sim Type

StevieD44 — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 01:20:47 GMT

Thanks so much everyone! Although I feel like an idiot now because it was such an easy fix, I really appreciate all the help!

Re: Wrong Sim Type

AE_Collector — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 02:03:58 GMT

@StevieD44

The easy fixes are the best fixes!

AE_Collector

Re: Wrong Sim Type

Korth — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 04:48:24 GMT

You can save the unused plastic spacers, "just in case" you ever need them to make any smalller-sized-SIM card fit into any larger-sized-SIM device. They're universal, don't even have to be Public Mobile. They can be purchased for about a little more than the usual price of a SIM card, lol, it can be a hassle to back and forth between new and old devices.

Or you can just throw them away.

Re: Wrong Sim Type

xiaogegeying — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 15:18:42 GMT

3 in 1 sim card type, Can't be wrong. lol.

Re: Wrong Sim Type

AE_Collector — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 15:19:07 GMT

I always find it amusing that SIM cards got smaller and smaller just as phones started getting bigger and bigger. Not really any need for The microscopic size of something that has to be handled occasionally. But I guess manufacturers want to save space in phones wherever they can.

AE_Collector

Re: Wrong Sim Type

Korth — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 07:13:53 GMT

@AE_Collector

The SIM itself - electrical interface and embedded circuitry - was technically always the same size. Surrounded by a variety of oversized form factor plastic packages for "convenience".

Re: Wrong Sim Type

AE_Collector — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 18:16:56 GMT

Yeah i have successfully cut several full size SIM cards down to micro size.