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First and foremost, please forgive me if this is in the wrong forum, but it seemed to be the likeliest choice. I am looking to understand each subject a little more so that I can attempt to come up with a rational explanation. Thank you in advance for considering my question.
The involves a Ukrainian SIM card, a Ukrainian virtual number, a PBX/DID company that has multiple locations, and an extremely hot Ukrainian girl (but don't they all? I know what your think). The lady provides me he cell phone number about 6 months ago. I tried texting it, as well as calling it, with no success. I knew the text were going somewhere (the little check mark), but the phone just made an odd sound and disconnected. My AT&T plan has unlimited international texting, but I called them on 5 separate occasions to confirm all was good on my end. They did some re-provisioning, and had me change some internal setting on the phone, but nothing. They have assured me that I should have no issues texting to a Ukrainian cell number. My next thought was to obtain a virtual cell phone number from the Ukraine. Not every cell phone company in the world plays nice with one another, and I thought maybe her cell phone provider might block international calls. I thought that if I had a local number, that the issue of being blocked would resolve itself. She was able to both text and call me on my new virtual cell phone number. As usual, I had no success in either texting her or calling her. When I asked technical support why my text messages were not making it through, they told me it was because I was trying to text and call another virtual cell phone number, on the same system. At this point, I was very shocked. I thought to myself what would she be doing with a virtual cell phone number? Many of you who are reading this probably think, I know why she has a virtual number. That is because it is exactly what I thought. After sending an email, that to most would sound as if I were accusing her of attempting to scam me, I'm pretty sure I could almost see the explosion from here. She was very angry and offended that I would accuse her of such a thing. With her angry response, there were pictures that showed all of the contents of the Sim card she had purchased. On the credit card sized piece of plastic that the Sim card comes in, you could clearly see that the Sim card bar-code clearly showed her cell phone number. It was identical to the one that the PBX company said was there's.When I questioned the PBX company about it, they told me that if it were real same card there would be a few easy to locate markings, that would prove it was really an actual Sim card. The first thing that they had told me was that there would be an expiration date on the package, which there clearly was. They asked me a couple more questions about different markings, and that afforded them the pictures that showed they were clearly visible. Then, the guy that had been working with me was replaced by another. And the new guy was less than forthcoming, compared to the original tech support guy.
So my question is this, how can the same cell phone number be used on a Sim card, and also be used on a PBX system? I am very much an amateur when it comes to how the two system work, and if there is a way they could be tied together. The cellular code in the phone number is 94, which means that a company called Intertelecom Is involved somehow with the phone numbers. After doing some research on them, I was able to learn that they are the largest CDMA provider in that part of the world. I do not know how cell phone numbers are handled, so with the PBX company have to purchase cellular numbers from the carrier? Or, do cellular systems rely on PBX systems in order to communicate? Any insight that anyone could provide to me as to how cellular networks work, or anything else you may know, I would be grateful. I do not know if there are capabilities where people can purchase virtual cellular numbers, and then have those numbers somehow assigned to a Sim card. I know that in the United States there is a registry system that generates a random cell phone number, if your provider does not allow you pick a number, but either way I know that Sims do not have preregistered cell phone numbers. On the other hand, I was able to find that in many eastern European countries, prepaid Sim cards come with a number assigned to it.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration on this question.
The involves a Ukrainian SIM card, a Ukrainian virtual number, a PBX/DID company that has multiple locations, and an extremely hot Ukrainian girl (but don't they all? I know what your think). The lady provides me he cell phone number about 6 months ago. I tried texting it, as well as calling it, with no success. I knew the text were going somewhere (the little check mark), but the phone just made an odd sound and disconnected. My AT&T plan has unlimited international texting, but I called them on 5 separate occasions to confirm all was good on my end. They did some re-provisioning, and had me change some internal setting on the phone, but nothing. They have assured me that I should have no issues texting to a Ukrainian cell number. My next thought was to obtain a virtual cell phone number from the Ukraine. Not every cell phone company in the world plays nice with one another, and I thought maybe her cell phone provider might block international calls. I thought that if I had a local number, that the issue of being blocked would resolve itself. She was able to both text and call me on my new virtual cell phone number. As usual, I had no success in either texting her or calling her. When I asked technical support why my text messages were not making it through, they told me it was because I was trying to text and call another virtual cell phone number, on the same system. At this point, I was very shocked. I thought to myself what would she be doing with a virtual cell phone number? Many of you who are reading this probably think, I know why she has a virtual number. That is because it is exactly what I thought. After sending an email, that to most would sound as if I were accusing her of attempting to scam me, I'm pretty sure I could almost see the explosion from here. She was very angry and offended that I would accuse her of such a thing. With her angry response, there were pictures that showed all of the contents of the Sim card she had purchased. On the credit card sized piece of plastic that the Sim card comes in, you could clearly see that the Sim card bar-code clearly showed her cell phone number. It was identical to the one that the PBX company said was there's.When I questioned the PBX company about it, they told me that if it were real same card there would be a few easy to locate markings, that would prove it was really an actual Sim card. The first thing that they had told me was that there would be an expiration date on the package, which there clearly was. They asked me a couple more questions about different markings, and that afforded them the pictures that showed they were clearly visible. Then, the guy that had been working with me was replaced by another. And the new guy was less than forthcoming, compared to the original tech support guy.
So my question is this, how can the same cell phone number be used on a Sim card, and also be used on a PBX system? I am very much an amateur when it comes to how the two system work, and if there is a way they could be tied together. The cellular code in the phone number is 94, which means that a company called Intertelecom Is involved somehow with the phone numbers. After doing some research on them, I was able to learn that they are the largest CDMA provider in that part of the world. I do not know how cell phone numbers are handled, so with the PBX company have to purchase cellular numbers from the carrier? Or, do cellular systems rely on PBX systems in order to communicate? Any insight that anyone could provide to me as to how cellular networks work, or anything else you may know, I would be grateful. I do not know if there are capabilities where people can purchase virtual cellular numbers, and then have those numbers somehow assigned to a Sim card. I know that in the United States there is a registry system that generates a random cell phone number, if your provider does not allow you pick a number, but either way I know that Sims do not have preregistered cell phone numbers. On the other hand, I was able to find that in many eastern European countries, prepaid Sim cards come with a number assigned to it.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration on this question.
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