[dogma1138]

No you won't, IMSI provisioning is mostly done today remotely. The SIM card will have an empty IMSI partition and once you've "activate" it with the parent network the network will provision an IMSI on that card. If you have an account with a cell provider you'll carry the same IMSI number when you switch devices and SIM cards.

If you use pre-paid sim cards then those usually have thin provisioning of IMSI numbers they network buys a certain amount and activates them when the SIM card is activated and deactivates them once the SIM card has been inactive or not been topped off for a certain period of time (usually around 90 days).

When some one has your IMSI they can tie it directly to your personal details, phone number and various other details if they have sufficient access to the global cell system they can also get your location and what tower you are connected to. Historical log data will give them any tower you've been connected too from the first tower during the initial activation and provisioning to the last tower you've been connected too. Depending on the network and device most phones also send out nice diagnostic information about other towers and networks they see all the time regardless of what tower they are connected too at the time that with a given IMSI number will allow some one to triangulate the position of the device to under 10M in most urban areas if some one knows your IMSI they can pretty much pin point what room you are in at your house (give your house have several rooms pointing at different directions ;)).