SIM cardsMOSCOW, 23 Jan. SIM cards can fail due to physical wear and tear. How often they should be changed for preventive purposes, Grigory Lysenko, an expert at the Yota telecommunications company, said in an interview with Sputnik radio. , like the hard drive of a computer or smartphone, it has memory, information comes to it and data is stored,» Lysenko explained. As new information is loaded into the SIM card memory and the old one is deleted, this element of the phone wears out. On average, this happens over 10-15 years. But sometimes device owners are forced to apply for new SIM cards much earlier. There are a lot of reasons why customers (telecommunication companies — ed.) change SIM cards. The main reason for users is the lack of communication. There are also cases when it is impossible to register a SIM card on the network, despite the fact that all internal settings smartphones are set correctly. In such cases, they also change the SIM card,» Lysenko noted. To avoid such situations, the expert advises changing SIM cards every four to five years. «I recommend changing SIM cards for preventive purposes. once every four or five years,” Grigory Lysenko said in an interview with Sputnik radio. , write the media
