Cutting SIM Cards

[koØm]

The wife fancied a new cellphone, fair enough, she's had the old one for years. Unsurprisingly all the new ones have at least a microSIM card, if not a nanoSIM, and Vodafone will replace cards for free if you have a contract but we do not so they are not keen. (We both use Vodafone because it allows calls in most of Europe and New Zealand with no messing).
I looked at trimming her standard card to fit and the internet gives loads of pictures, some are suitably vague and some completely misleading which would lead to destruction of the SIM card but this is the best and most sensible:

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I took my old phone in to an "Authorized Dealer" to have my service provider fix me up with the 'Nano-sized' SIM card for my new phone, I expected them to reprogram a "New" SIM card for my new phone.......WRONG!

The fellow takes my old SIM card, places it into something looking like a hole punch and, "crunch," out comes my nano-sized SIM card which, he slapped into my phone and, asked me for $15.00. He provided me with two "holders", one was Micro-SIM sized, the other full sized so that I could slap the SIM card into any sized SIM slot.

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