Lost iPhone, offline in Find my iPhone

Question

Lost my iPhone few days ago. Since I was unable to connect the internet at the time, I immedeately
called the carrier to stop the service to it.
No ofcourse Find my iPhone shows that it is offline, and all the requested action are pending.
Would the phone appear to be online, even if someone put another sim-card into it ? And if so,
would the requested wipe and lock actions take place then ?
Thanks for answering !!!

Answer 1

PkJ14 wrote:
Well, they deffinetly aren´t using the same carrier, because the phone was lost/stolen abroad. Strange, that this tracking system can´t find the phone by it´s IMEI code. To my understanding it is only way to identify the phone !! In other words, Find my iPhone is useless, if the phone is lost and you don´t have internet connection, or the thief is clever enough to turn trackin mode off. And carrier can do nothing about that? Just wondering, why the phones even have the IMEI number.. ?
Neither find my iPhone nor the IMEI are,  or were ever intended as security features.  The IMEI only exists so carriers can track individual devices to be able to bill them for useage (you have to have some way to uniquely identify each device hitting the network and assign it to an account).  Find my iphone, and ANY internet tracking software, is really only a potentially useful convenience feature (and a limited one at that).
Your iPhone did have security features on it to protect your information, but you chose to ignore them.  Really, I have little to no sympathy for people who refuse to use a passlock security code on their devices.  Might as well have just pasted any confidential information that was on the phone on a public web page.
Security does come at the cost of ease and convience of use - always has and always will.  But note that one of the key driving forces in smart phone theft is people looking for identity information, not for the phone itself.  Millions of smart phones, with no security enabled on them, are stolen or lost every year, and every year identity theft grows by billions of dollars - it is not a coincidence.