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can you use an att sim card in a tracfone or virgin mobile phone?

I lost my cell phone.. (ATT) can I go to walmart and buy one of those cheap virgin mobile prepaid phones or tracfone and put my sim card in it and will it work?? Please only answer if you do know. Thanks in advance

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1. I was in the same situation as you. And my worked out, but I have T-mobile and I bought a prepaid t-mobile phone. It will only work if you buy a prepaid att phone. Most likley if you buy a virgin mobile it wontwork. hope i helped :D
2. i dont think that it would work because its like different companies answer my question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqfzNxYJeElQohulFmPB2oDsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20081130125738AAdYDzd
3. Actually the answer is NO. The reason is that Network providers use a SIM locking capability to restrict the use of these phones to specific countries and/or other network providers. As an example, phones can be locked to accept only SIM cards from Network/ Service providers (e.g. AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile, Vodafone, etc.).
4. Probably not. Different carriers. Usually phones are locked to the carrier that they come from. Virgin Mobile will only work with Virgin Mobile SIMs & same applies to any other carrier. If you could find an unlocked phone then it would not be a problem at all to do this.