Switching sim cards between my bf and I

He just brought the iPhone 3gs and he decided to give me his 3g iPhone so he said if I insert my sim card and I activate it on my iTunes then my sim card is going to get messed up so what should my bf and I do?

Call ATT, they need to put your # on his old sim and activate the new sim. I believe old card will not work on iPhones. Since if he ordered it online all he needs to do is call the att # and it automatically deactivate the old card and activate the new card which u don't want to happen.

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