Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Two Cellular Phones, Same Number Message-ID: <8865@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Jun 90 14:17:10 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Organization: University of Michigan IFS Project Lines: 28 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 427, Message 6 of 12 In article <8827@accuvax.nwu.edu>, "John R. Covert 09-Jun-1990 1015" writes: > >A friend of mine wants to have two cellular telephones in two > >different cars with the same telephone number. Of course, he will use > >only one at a time. The telco won't set this up for him. > The only option is to have a portable which is carried from car to > car. What I envision is a smart-card that contains your ESN, phone number, and billing info. When you slide it in to any cell phone, that phone becomes your phone. It answers calls to your number and lets you make outgoing calls which then get billed to you. The same card could also be used at a payphone. You could have it demand a PIN for each use if you were security conscious. On a related subject, I hope that when European unity comes we can dispense with all those different phone cards and have one card that works anywhere on the continent. Unfortunately this doesn't seem very likely, since the cards all seem to be physically different from each other, at least the ones I've examined. Can anyone tell me how the British card works? On the French card you can see the electrical contacts, but the British one doesn't seem to have any. Is it done electromagnetically? Or with mirrors?