{"id":14160,"date":"2010-08-03T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T09:46:00","slug":"micro-sims-quietly-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/14160-micro-sims-quietly-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Micro-SIMs quietly launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom announced in May that they would receive micro-SIMs available later that month and MTN said that they would stock <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/12298-iPad-micro-SIMs-from-Vodacom-and-MTN.html\">micro-SIMs from early to mid June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C also announced that they were importing micro-SIMs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcentral.co.za\/mtn-cell-c-to-join-vodacom-in-offering-micro-sims\/14230\/\">according to TechCentral<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Micro-SIMs are Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) that are 52% smaller than a standard mini-SIM. The actual chip remains the same size and backwards compatible with mini-SIMs, it&#8217;s just the plastic &ldquo;card&rdquo; part around the chip that&#8217;s smaller than that of a mini-SIM.<\/p>\n<p>These micro-SIMs (also called the third form factor, or 3FF) were originally developed to fit into devices that would be too small for a mini-SIM and are used by Apple in their iPad and iPhone 4 products.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom confirmed that micro-SIMs are currently available from Vodashops for R105 if you&#8217;d like to set it up as a Twin Call SIM, or at R62.99 if you do a SIM swap.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d prefer to get a new contract or prepaid account for your iPad you&#8217;ll have to sign the contract or buy the starter pack and perform a SIM swap.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C said that they would have micro-SIMs from mid-August and would make them available at larger Cell C outlets for the same price as a standard SIM swap.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at MTN stores said that they haven&#8217;t received any micro-SIMs yet. MTN wasn&#8217;t able to comment on when they would make micro-SIMs available and how much they would cost.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Vodacom, Cell C, or MTN could provide a local launch date for the Apple iPad.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/255486-Micro-SIMs-launched-in-South-Africa\">Micro-SIMs in SA<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without fanfare, Vodacom has made micro-SIMs available to South African iPad and iPhone 4 users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}