[ietf78-tech] sims

[Chris Elliott]

Geert,

You probably know this, but the iPad (and the new iPhone 4) use the micro
sims. Now, you can carefully cut a full-sized sim down to fit, but it would
probably be more popular to be able to get a micro...

Enjoy!
Chris.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Geert Jan de Groot <geertj at psg.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:11:45 -0700 Randy Bush wrote:
> > we gonna be able to get ipad+3g local sims and pay for a month of
> > service as we do in the states?
>
> I'm sort-of offline till sunday, dealing with electrical power and safety
> at http://rodeo.scouting.nl (Dutch only, sorry, but you'll
> get the gist)
>
> What you want is "prepay" (this is easy), with "data" (which is
> what I need to research). The telco's use data to guide people
> to a subscription rather than a prepay card, so this isn't easy.
>
> In general, there are 3 mobile telco's:
> - KPN mobile: incumbent telco, good coverage.
>  Other brand names: Telfort, Hi
> - Vodaphone: KPN's big competitor, good coverage
> - T-mobile: 3rd operator. They have coverage issues, and more important,
>  severe 3G capacity problems, up to the point where they re-imburse
>  UMTS customers at this time. I'm a T-mobile customer and unfortunately
>  can confirm these problems.
>
> What's the data volume (roughly) you're planning to burn?
>
> Let me get back to you on this next week, OK?
>
> GJ
>
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