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[superbad.livejournal.com]

Is this more or less how you would say "If I lost my SIM card, can I keep my old number?"

При потери СИМ-карточки, можно сохранить старый номер?

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[icamel.livejournal.com]

Старый is better. You can also say прежний. Бывший doesn't suite the context well. It has meaning of stopped existence, while you want to extend it.

And there is no need to transliterate SIM.

[konstkaras.livejournal.com]

No, better to use старый. Бывший ("former") is used mostly for persons (бывший начальник, бывший муж) and more rarely to things with a bit of irony (эта тряпка - бывший галстук).
And I would not use старый here: if the number is kept, it will be used on end won't be old. I would say "можно сохранить свой номер?".

[firebottle.livejournal.com]

1. "при потерЕ"
2. no comma

[yurka-spb.livejournal.com]

Your translation is more or less correct (the only thing: it is потере, not потери), however I would put it in the different way:

Можно ли сохранить старый номер при потере СИМ-карты?

[eye1ess-maggot.livejournal.com]

можно ли сохранить мой прежний номер при потере сим-карточки?

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

That's mix from formal and informal speak.

Would be better:
-- Если я потеряю свою SIM-карту, останется ли за мной старый номер?
(Informally)

-- При потери SIM-карты, могу ли я оставить старый номер?
(Rather formal question)

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

Disagree.

Если я потеряю свою SIM-карту, останется ли за мной старый номер?

Imho, translates as if I'll loose my SIM-card, will my old number remain with me [automatically]?

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

I do not see a clue to translate that way and not way as topic start sentence.

Obliviously, nobody's fool. And the word "remain" don't fit the sentence. It rather "keep" or "save" as same as in start phrase.

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

Probably, I did not say it very clear.

Imho, "If I lost my SIM card, can I keep my old number?" translates as "можно ли сохранить старый номер при потере сим-карты?", meaning, can I do something to keep it?

Now, your version, I think, is this: "останется ли за мной старый номер", meaning, if I don't do anything, go and get a new card, will I have the old number?

(Man... I'm very sorry for multiple editing. Why do I keep doing typos?)

[zauberer.livejournal.com]

Thinking along these lines, it would be something like

Как мне сохранить свой номер в случае потери SIM-карты?

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

Sure. However, как is a question how to keep it. :) And the author wanted to ask whether it is possible at all. :P

[elisssa.livejournal.com]

+1

[alamar.livejournal.com]

Можно ли сохранить свой номер в случае потери SIM-карты?

[v-drug.livejournal.com]

Yes, comprehensible and correct.
The only (and the tiniest) mistake is that it's not "при потерИ", but should be "при потерЕ".

This is in fact what some literary-minded Russian would say. The simpler version of saying it is: "Можно (ли) сохранить старый номер, если я потерял(а) СИМ-карту?" You can put in "в том случае" making it: "Можно сохранить старый номер в том случае, если я потерял(а) СИМ-карту." or "Я могу сохранить старый номер в том случае, если потерял(а) СИМ-карту?"

PS: sorry for being slightly overscrupulous :)