# cingular or VZW

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**Created:** [December 27, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cingular-or-vzw/22187 "2006-12-27T12:37:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cingular-or-vzw/22187/29 "2006-12-27T22:27:00Z")

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> [@Joe](#):
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> No, no they don’t, I swap PDA phones every weekend and mine works just fine. The only data device that uses an IMEI is PC cards IIRC.

uh, interesting, doesn’t work on blackberries I know. according to the rep PDA phones aren’t supposed to switch. IMEIs are locked to numbers, if it is an unassigned IMEI, then you can swap sim cards and the number will follow the phone. However, the IMEI is assigned a number, it won’t change with the sim…

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