Can a SIM card ejected out of your phone be tracked? (does it send or receive signals?) If a SIM card is ejected, then a phone can still be tracked, but only through wi-fi or bluetooth? If I carry my ejected SIM near a completely new phone, do they “talk” to each other?

[image] anon72848648: Can a SIM card ejected out of your phone be tracked? (does it send or receive signals?) As I understand it, the SIM card itself does not connect to anything wirelessly, it just holds information to tell the tower who to bill the data to.

Your phone connects to a tower and can be tracked even without a sim card if not in airplane mode.

[image] anon72848648: does it send or receive signals? No.

I used to work for a cell phone company and this question was common. People think of bank card skimming, but a cell sim functions very different to a bank card, which throws its card details at a near-distance, similar to RFID. A sim card needs power on the chip to function, and it’s very difficu…

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extremelyBigGuy October 15, 2025, 9:35am 6

Hehe, good luck. In many jurisdictions, unless you are rightful owner, you get rejected (and/or reported to authorities).

Yet not impossible.

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