iPhone activation abroad

[iphoneurope]

Let's say I'm U.S. citizen abroad, my wife in States bought me iPhone and sent it to me to Europe, is it possible for me to activate iPhone abroad in roaming? As far as I understand they collect your data via iTunes and transfer it to AT&T database and then asign to IMSI of your sim card to your number and activate sim card in database. So, could this process could done in the roaming network?

 

[Ugg]

Let's say I'm U.S. citizen abroad, my wife in States bought me iPhone and sent it to me to Europe, is it possible for me to activate iPhone abroad in roaming? As far as I understand they collect your data via iTunes and transfer it to AT&T database and then asign to IMSI of your sim card to your number and activate sim card in database. So, could this process could done in the roaming network?

You'd at the very least, need a US iTMS account. I would also question whether it could be activated overseas. I'm sure that AT&T's servers would recognize that you're trying to do this outside the US.

 

[iphoneurope]

You'd at the very least, need a US iTMS account. I would also question whether it could be activated overseas. I'm sure that AT&T's servers would recognize that you're trying to do this outside the US.

U.S. iTMS account not a problem if I have a credit card Bank of America with U.S. billing address as well as I could login to VPN U.S. server and use iTunes via VPN.