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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
you can clone sims so im guessing there are
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There was also a method when PAYG was new* to use an EEPROM hooked up to the sim to reset it's credit by pressing a button (or combination of buttons) - a rather dodgy friend had one.
IIRC that pretty much got squashed when the phone companies started monitoring/applying the PAYG credit from their end rather than on the phone's sim.
I suspect these days it's much harder to steal the mobile phone service than it is to steal cable, because the mobile service requires full two way communications between the device and the provider to work at all, whilst cable TV can probably work with one way only communications if you're not using anything interactive/on demand.
*Going back to about 99/00 or possibly even earlier.