iPad Micro Sim solution in South Africa

[rpm]

iPad Micro Sim solution

Apple recently launched their iPad 3G and iPhone 4 which both require Micro Sims and a local company took the opportunity to serve Apple enthusiasts

 

[Lobesy]

or you could just cut your existing sim to fit into it

 

[gboy]

how do they pre-RICA a sim card ? does this not heve to be done by the user ?

 

[[Quattro]]

Already RICAd sims? And fully active?
How do you supply me with an active sim on my cell number?

 

[potman]

just cut it!

took me 5 minutes to cut mine to shape for my iPad...

 

[dabbler]

took me 5 minutes to cut mine to shape for my iPad...

I take it that the sim contacts/spacing is the same for both types, only the plastic support different?

 

[ssr]

Or get dual sim from MTN

 

[Okinawaiso]

The business model seems flawed.

 

[Moshidi]

8ta micro sim anybody?

 

[elvis_presley]

I don't know what the big deal is - I'm with Vodacom SP; I paid R30, and 2 days later I had a micro Data SIM delivered to me. Activation was as simple as phoning their call center, saying yes I got my SIM, make it live please. It rode on top of my voice SIM, which is perfect. You don't want a Twin SIM (voice+data), like the article says, you want the cheaper "Data SIM". It does data only. I'm not sure if MTN/CellC do data sims, but I'm sure they do - all the providers do pretty much the same things.

 

[iCubed.Saajid]

I'm not sure if MTN/CellC do data sims, but I'm sure they do

 

[Viva]

I'm not sure if MTN/CellC do data sims, but I'm sure they do

Thanks for making my day!

 

[elvis_presley]

Bah. You know what I mean.

 

[adsl3g]

Ya, don't know what big deal is, I did not even pay for my micro sim with VC SP.


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[g1mme]

I take it that the sim contacts/spacing is the same for both types, only the plastic support different?

jip, I pretty much just cut out the contact ( metal piece) and stuck it into the phone, worked 1st time, then i did it for 2 friends, still works.

No need for this micro sim, R105 waste ***.

 

[Sky_3G]

This is a prepaid solution, not for contract SIMs. Data contracts for an iPad doesn't really make sense, as data costs the same on prepaid. The "big deal" is that the prepaid SIM is monitored and automatically recharged.

 

[Rishalin]

Hmm MTN and Vodacom offer Micro SIM's.. some friends of mine got one from MTN for their iPad..

 

[entrepr]

There's a shop called Phone Shop in Sandton City, next to Checkers. For R100 they cut an existing sim to make it a microsim. Takes about 2 minutes. The cut piece fits into the holder still if you need to transfer it back into a normal sim-holder phone.

You can do it yourself, but there's some risk.

 

[walterl]

There's a shop called Phone Shop in Sandton City, next to Checkers. For R100 they cut an existing sim to make it a microsim. Takes about 2 minutes. The cut piece fits into the holder still if you need to transfer it back into a normal sim-holder phone.

You can do it yourself, but there's some risk.

The MTN shop in Hyde park did this for me for free! (And I'm a vodacom subscriber!)

 

[entrepr]

The MTN shop in Hyde park did this for me for free! (And I'm a vodacom subscriber!)

Darn!