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You can buy those 12-1 sim cards on ebay and clone your current sim card to one of them. While doing that you can also edit the 12-1 sim card to let it write whatever you want as the operator name.
My guess is that the original sim card code just states put whatever text the tower sends to you but that could probably be changed if you were able to edit the original sim card like you could the 12-1.
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Posted: 2007-05-03 21:10:46
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I'd rather have the phone show me the name of the network it's currently using...
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Posted: 2007-05-03 21:44:36
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Fatreg presented the most accurate info on this topic yet: it is a combination of both SIM and tower, also sometimes depending on how each network has configured things to work.
My wife uses a SIM from Celtel Nigeria, which used to be known as ECONET Wireless. Her SIM displays "Celtel" on the phone, yet I have run into others whose phones still display "ECONET". Note that the transition to Celtel was implemented over a year ago, and these differences were observed with both lines under the coverage of the same tower.
It certainly cannot be 100% tower; and its not 100% SIM either. I understand that networks are able to update SIM data remotely; so it shouldn't be too difficult to see a sort of seamless operation between tower and SIM.
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Posted: 2007-05-03 22:50:00
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I think it could possibly be the actual phone!
I remember when BT Cellnet changed it's name to O2-UK, many older phones did (and still do) display 'BT Cellnet' instead of O2 as the network name - try it if you have an old 8210, 3310, or 6210 and you'll see!
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Posted: 2007-05-03 23:03:00
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