Your SIM card is hermetically sealed inside the phone, so you cannot get it out. With an external SIM card, you can simply remove the SIM card and insert it into a new phone (or an old phone that ...

Activating a SIM card involves a couple of steps, which take place on your Verizon account online or by talking to a customer service representative over the phone. The process could also differ ...

But there's a huge fly in the ointment: Verizon doesn't want the device on their network. At all. The company is refusing to open new data lines activated with the unlocked, LTE-only Nexus 7.

Verizon comes from a different culture where it assumes a tighter tie between device and SIM card. So sometimes straight-up swapping SIMs between Verizon phones just doesn't work.

Verizon now makes it possible for customers to defend against SIM swapping attacks by enabling the free Number Lock protection feature through the My Verizon app or the My Verizon website.

Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. "We determined that between ...

The photo does indeed show a 4G-branded SIM card, with the Verizon logo present as well. As we mentioned above, Verizon won't have any handsets ready to go right off the bat, but the SIM cards ...

Verizon doesn't currently offer a data-only plan for smartphones. Using the new iPad and an LTE SIM card, you can have a data-only plan in a few minutes.

These let the network know what your phone number is, and what phone carrier you use (T-Mobile, Verizon, etc.). SIM cards can carry a great deal of data, like your contact list and text messages.

The Telecommunications beast Verizon was awarded a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) on September 10, for a system that uses blockchain to create virtual SIM cards. ...