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Ask your carrier how much they charge to issue a new SIM, I wouldn't buy random SIMs of Amazon hoping you could get it to work.

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I have a sim card from an iphone 3, and I'm thinking about getting a htc one m8 which has a nano sim card. I know you can either cut it with scissors or with a sim cutter, but I've also heard that you can take it to best buy and they'll cut it for you. What is the best way to do this?

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Never heard of best buy doing it, wouldn't take a chance with scissors.

 

I bought a Oneplus purely because Micro is better standard IMHO. Also, older SIM cards used the whole sim space, only newer full sized sims work with cutters.

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nano sim is much harder to do, because it's thinner than normal sim, you might have to use sandpaper to make it thinner.

micro sim is easy to cut.

I would say just change your sim, it's not that expensive and takes no time really.

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It isn't expensive to change sim, so I would just do that tbh, not sure how it is for you, but in the UK from a lot of providers you can get sims free then you just need to get a code and ask for them to transfer your number across to the new sim then you're all done. 

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nano sim is much harder to do, because it's thinner than normal sim, you might have to use sandpaper to make it thinner.

micro sim is easy to cut.

I would say just change your sim, it's not that expensive and takes no time really.

ok, so if I was to buy this sim card, how much would it cost to activate it?

 

http://www.amazon.com/AT-Nano-card-iPhone-Plus/dp/B009DRLCXK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1435599387&sr=8-2&keywords=nano+sim+card

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Ask your carrier how much they charge to issue a new SIM, I wouldn't buy random SIMs of Amazon hoping you could get it to work.

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just go to your current carrier's store and they give you a new sim in minutes...

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