Will my sims card from my iphone 5c with virgin mobile work with iphone se ?

Yes. both iPhones use the same type of sim card. A Nano sim.

You can place your Virgin Nano sim into the unlocked SE, and it should work.

Virgin Mobile in the US is a CDMA carrier. They will not allow any iPhones on their network that were not sold explicitly for their network. You can not use an unlocked iPhone on Virgin Mobile. They already told you that. Why would you doubt what they told you?

waterforme44 wrote:

Because my most recent phone a iPhone 5c was from Apple store due to my other iPhone 5 broke and gave me a new one under warranty and they took out sims card and put in new phone and it worked! So I don't who to believe?

Apple replacements are set up to match the original, as far as carrier support and locking, so a replaced Virgin iPhone will still work on Virgin. A new phone purchased from Apple is not set up for Virgin, and even though its hardware may be fully compatible with Virgin, if Virgin doesn't want to activate it there is nothing you can do to use it on Virgin.

The main point here, as I was not aware Virgin was a CDMA carrier, is: the Sim Card will work for whatever it is used. i.e for CDMA carriers the sim card is usually used for the LTE networks.

If Virgin still uses CDMA for the other networks i.e 3G, then that will not work, as Virgin would need to activate that portion of the iPhone, and they may choose to not do so.

What happens is service will work with the Sim card as long as you are on an area for LTE. If you leave the LTE area, then the Phone needs to move down to another network, and without Virgin activating it, it will not be able to do so.

Also of note, is Virgin may only use the Sim card for Data, and not Voice and Messaging, so without activation, you would not be able to make calls or send messages.

If you really want to test this, you do have 14 days after the date of purchase of an iPhone to return it no questions asked for a full refund, so you may want to try it out and see.

Otherwise, yes, you would need to buy the iPhone from Virgin to make 100% sure everything will work.

Since iPhones don't support using the SIM for data (it doesn't hold much anyway) this does not apply. Virgin uses the nanSIM for LTE voice and data service.

deggie wrote:

Since iPhones don't support using the SIM for data (it doesn't hold much anyway) this does not apply. Virgin uses the nanSIM for LTE voice and data service.

I'm confused... What does not apply? If Virgin uses the Nano Sim for LTE, then it will work with LTE. The Phone will not work if it needs to go down to the CDMA 3G or lower networks.

I never said anything about the sim holding data. I meant Data as in LTE , Cellular Data. Not actual information. If Virgin uses the Sim for Voice and Data, then it will works as long as the iPhone is kept in LTE areas.

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"Also of note, is Virgin may only use the Sim card for Data,". After rereading that sentence several times I see you were referring to (cellular) data, but it really is confusing as written.

Ahh, I see. can't edit it now unfortunately.

For the record, and to avoid future confusion:

Also of note, is Virgin may only use the Sim card for Data,

That is Data as in Internet Access.