Daniel Hruska Last October, Apple SIM became one of the new apple services. Until now, it could be used by customers of AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile in the US and EE in Great Britain. However, Apple has joined forces with GigSky in the past few days, so the Apple SIM can be used in more than 90 countries around the world.
The Apple SIM principle is relatively simple (if you're in the right country, that is). First, you have to buy it in one of the Apple Stores in Australia, France, Italy, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, USA or Great Britain. Then you travel abroad, insert the SIM into the iPad (currently iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 are supported) and choose the most favorable prepaid tariff directly on its display.
The size and price of data packages varies from country to country. For example:
- Germany from $10 for 75 MB/3 days to $50 from 3 GB/30 days
- Croatia from $10 for 40MB/3 days to $50 from 500MB/30 days
- Egypt from $10 for 15MB/3 days to $50 from 150MB/30 days
- US from $10 for 40MB/3 days to $50 for 1GB/30 days
Na all tariffs you can take a look at the GigSky website, similarly to the list of all countries with coverage map. You can also find information on the website Apple (English only).
That's pretty expensive. That's not a bad idea ;-). With Vodafone, they already had it in such a way last year that it was enough (even to buy a prepaid card) to pay 2x the local price of the tariff and it was transferred to the whole of Europe (and various countries). That is even last year it was 150kB/month for 300-350. After those 150MB, the speed was reduced to 64kB.
It's really worth it for the price :-D I have it cheaper with my operator and I keep telling him that it's expensive, but this one from Apple is completely out of the question and for that price I really don't believe it will catch on
GigSky didn't quite understand why people welcomed the Apple SIM at launch. It was supposed to save them costs by not having to fly around the shops at the holiday destination and buy a SIM from the local operator at the "local" price, thus avoiding roaming, which is very expensive in the case of data...so they introduced a service that is still much more expensive than roaming :D