Michal Ždanský From the beginning, the iPad with cellular connection offered the possibility to insert an operator's SIM card into the device, just like an iPhone. In practice, this meant going to the operator, requesting a card and setting the selected data plan with it. However, for the United States and Great Britain, Apple has prepared a very interesting innovation in the new iPads. iPad Air 2 a iPad mini 3 because they already contain a universal SIM from Apple, which will allow users to choose from the offers of all operators and possibly switch from one operator to another from day to day.
Information about this special SIM card appeared for the first time four years ago, there was speculation at the time that Apple would bypass carriers when selling the iPhone. However, this card will make its debut on tablets and may come to phones later. For now, the SIM card will work in the US for three local carriers - AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. Strangely, there is no version listed here, which does use a CDMA network unlike T-Mobile and AT&T, but you can find the same technology with Sprint. It is possible that the operator simply decided not to support the SIM card.
It is a question whether the SIM card will find support in other countries as well, as this is an interesting innovation that will make it easier for users to arrange a data card for the iPad.
Great show!
I would also like to add that it already works quite interestingly – I have an AT&T (USA) SIM card in my iPad and whenever I arrive in the USA, I just turn on the iPad, enter the payment card number and choose a plan. The current phone number used by the iPad will be sent to me by email. At the end of the stay, I just turn off the tariff (or I can do it only in Prague). I.e. no operator contract, no SIM card expiration, etc.
Well, great... but here in the banana republic there is a "specific market". So I wouldn't expect it here anytime soon.
Does it really complicate your life so much that we don't have such a useless function here? We are not a specific market, but based on such posts, I judge that we have a specific mindset - to proclaim at all costs that everything is useless here and beyond the borders is the best. Try to go to America sometime and you will find that the grass is not greener there ;-)
So I was there and I can confirm that the grass really isn't greener there. But the sky is a nicer color and the sun is shining more pleasantly, and I'm not kidding.
Yes, porting numbers really complicates my life. Or else - it's more that the operators in the Czech Republic complicate my life. Just remember how long they blocked the transmission in every possible way, etc.
That we are a specific market... don't doubt it at all. Moreover, these are the words of the operators themselves. I didn't make it up.
You have a really specific way of thinking, that's true.
Or did I write that EVERYTHING is for nothing?
We are talking about the universal Apple SIM here.
When I want to solve the lawn, I will look for another server.
For greener grass, just go to Austria :-)