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How a Dual SIM or eSIM can work for you on your Bell Mobility phone

BellDRock
Community Manager

‎02-18-2022 05:13 PM - edited ‎06-22-2023 08:39 AM

A Dual SIM or eSIMOpens in a new tab or window allows you to have two mobile numbers on your compatible phone. With this setup, you can make and receive voice calls, and texts on both.  Set yourself up to have one number for personal and one for business or travel.  Your phone numbers can be on the same account, separate accounts, or with a different carrier.

Spend time as a snowbird or overseas? Have one line from Bell Mobility and the other from an international carrier.

Check your device for compatibility and learn how to set yourself up with Dual SIM or eSIM by hopping over to What are Dual SIM and eSIM? How do I use them?Opens in a new tab or window

 

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Cyd
Contributor
‎08-26-2023 09:09 PM

To clarify, if I have a global e-sim that includes talk & text I can use my regular phone number but incur no extra charge from Bell?

BellKris
Moderator
‎08-28-2023 02:11 PM

Hi there, @Cyd. Thank you for your post.

No, it would be as if you had two phone numbers on your phone, each being treated separately. You would not be able to makes calls or send/receive messages with your Bell phone number through your global eSIM.

CMC0330
Contributor
‎10-16-2023 09:53 AM

If you have two bell plans - one for personal use and one for business - and you want to set it up on one single phone, how does the data piece work? completely separate or could you use a shareable plan and then add a number and share the data?

BellKris
Moderator
‎10-18-2023 08:02 AM

Hi there, @CMC0330. Welcome to the Bell Community.

Is the business phone under the same account as your personal phone, or under a separate account?

If the former, you would need two separate lines and two separate plans with shareable data built in. This will make a pool of shareable data (i.e. two lines each with 50GB of shareable data will make a pool for 100GB between the two of them).

If the latter and they're both under separate accounts, they will not be able to traditionally share data; data sharing is limited to lines with shareable data plans on the same account. If they're on separate accounts, your only option for what could be considered sharing would to be to have one phone enable hot-spotting. For more info of how to set up a hotspot and eligible plans, take a look at this thread on setting up a hotspotOpens in a new tab or window

Let us know if you have any further questions.