For the seller to report this phone stolen and actually get it barred he would need to get o2 customer services to fill in a form to have it manually barred. This is because the bar is normally applied via a signal sent to the sim. Again, the seller's sim won't be in the phone so they'd need to come out with something like "my phone has been stolen but I didn't have any sim card in it at the time so can you bar it manually instead of through the system". However, again, any insurance policy I've come across states that your phone must be connected to the network at the time of the incident i.e. with the sim in it. |
If someone steals my phone, do u think they will keep my sim card in it??? |
No.
Let me put this more simply for you.
When you call customer services and report the phone lost/stolen they click to add the bars onto your account.
The IMEI bar is applied based on which handset the network thinks the sim card is at the time of the barring request / the last handset connected to the network through the account.
Therefore, if you want to bar a handset you last used, say, 6 months ago and have been using another phone since then you'd have to ask customer services to send off a form with the details of the handset you want barred which if they're on the ball they should start quentioning why you need this done as it's very out of the ordinary.
Hope this clears things up although let me know if you still don't understand Neelesh.
