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How can I sign up for 3G unlimited without a 3G iPad?
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Agreed. You can only do it through iPad. Unfortunately, it sounds like you'll be out of like by the time your iPad arrives.
Agreed. You can only do it through iPad. Unfortunately, it sounds like you'll be out of like by the time your iPad arrives.
You could go down the road this guy is thinking of taking. LOL
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/927288/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/927288/
You could ask someone with an ipad to purchage a sim card, and activate the plan you want with the info you give them... (name, email, address, prepaid visa card (as example) )... If I had a friend who needed the plan, I'd "charge" him 20$ to do it and hand hime the sim card afterwards....
Im in canada and thinking of driving down to the nearest AT&T store, buy a sim card and activate the plan before the 7th of june to have local data availability instead of paying horrible international rates with rogers
Im in canada and thinking of driving down to the nearest AT&T store, buy a sim card and activate the plan before the 7th of june to have local data availability instead of paying horrible international rates with rogers
Step 1: Go to an AT&T store and tell them you need to purchase a microsim for your ipad, because it was missing
Step 2: Carry a paperclip
Step 3: Go to an Apple store or a Best Buy where they have demos of the ipad on display
Step 4: Furtively insert paperclip into the sim tray release and insert the microsim that you got from AT&T, activate the sim on the ipad with your credit card info,
Step 5: Remove the microsim and go home and wait.
Step 6: Install microsim in your ipad when it arrives
Step 7: Be pissed at AT&T for making you go through this as well as making you be locked into a contract in order to maintain your unlimited 3G
I read this on another post. It may not work if somehow the ipad s/n is somehow encoded on the sim and can not be interchanged.
Good luck
http://store.apple.com/us_kiosk_255437/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad?mco=OTY2ODA0NQ
Should be hearing something from apple on this i think "soon".
Should be hearing something from apple on this i think "soon".
Did you order your 3G from Apple?
If so you are probably ok. Orders placed by 6/6 are eligible to get the unlimited plan based on the Apple web site information.
If so you are probably ok. Orders placed by 6/6 are eligible to get the unlimited plan based on the Apple web site information.
definitely true, if you let it lapse, you lose it. that's why people are mad, the original selling point was stop and go at any month, drop it for a while, and reactivate a month later.
this is gone on June 7. this is what all the fuss is about. you stop activating it and it;s gone forever.
this is gone on June 7. this is what all the fuss is about. you stop activating it and it;s gone forever.
How are you so sure this is the case? Where, on an official website is this stated? Don't tell me "I just got off the phone with Apple, or I spoke to a rep from AT&T", I want concrete proof, not hearsay. If you can let it lapse and then still be able to reactivate it, it would be good to know so I can activate it before 6/7. If the lapse situation is true, then I'm damned if I want to give AT&T my $30 that I wasn't planning on.
I don't think anyone knows the answer for certain. Based on common sense however, the plans are prepaid thus no contract is involved stating you must keep the plan, meaning once you cancel your current umlimited plan (can't let it lapse since its automatic recurring) everything starts over again (remember, no contract) and the option for purchasing another unlimited plan would no longer be available to you... only their new option of the 2GB limit.
that's what I have been reading, and since there is no 'contract' if you lapse and want to re-up service, there are now only the 2 new plan choices, 250mb and 2gb. Could be wrong, but strongly doubt it.
you can hold out hope for stop and go unlimited, but even the offering of any unlimited plan is probably short term. imho.
and you can't believe what ATT says either. so it's a wait and see. personally I would not let it lapse until the true stories come out.
you can hold out hope for stop and go unlimited, but even the offering of any unlimited plan is probably short term. imho.
and you can't believe what ATT says either. so it's a wait and see. personally I would not let it lapse until the true stories come out.
So, we're assuming that the unlimited option will only be available once, and that after you cancel it, you can only choose from the other two? I am still holding out hope (foolishly) that the information on the Apple site (that was just added yesterday) can be interpreted to mean that if you buy a 3G ipad before 6/6, you will 1) have access to the unlimited plan and 2) be able to start, stop and restart the unlimited plan. Why wouldn't Apple specifically say that the unlimited plan would be unavailable to everyone once they cancel it. The information was just added yesterday. Unless Apple can't get a straight answer from AT&T. They seem to be adding insult to injury by not specifically stating the cancel/unavailable situation.
maybe apple didn't say because they ain't makin the rules, their kinda ATT's biatch, it seems. I thought Stevie had more power than that.
I do wonder if he really cares about the customers and his promises or just the bottom dollar. I 'm hopin that he's pissed and will do something to placate customers that he kinda swindled with promises that ATT took away.
I'd love to see him get back at ATT but it's obvious the cell buisness is under a transformation to deal with big mobile data demands, but it makes Steve look weak.
I do wonder if he really cares about the customers and his promises or just the bottom dollar. I 'm hopin that he's pissed and will do something to placate customers that he kinda swindled with promises that ATT took away.
I'd love to see him get back at ATT but it's obvious the cell buisness is under a transformation to deal with big mobile data demands, but it makes Steve look weak.
Just like AT&T wants an extended iphone exclusivity contract with Apple, I think Apple should've come up with some kind of contract with AT&T requiring them to offer the ipad unlimited data plan for at least 12 months minimum. Now as result of AT&T's decision, Apple is going to have a tougher time selling ppl on the ipad 3G. Poor negotiating on Apple's part. I guess this is the price they pay for essentially making it unlocked like it really should be.