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July 04, 2007 | Comments: (0)

iPhone SIM works in any non-iPhone handset for calls, but not for data

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As I expected, you can pull the SIM card from an activated iPhone and place it in any phone you wish. However, all you'll be able to do is make phone calls. Any Web or e-mail access you attempt with the other phone will be billed to you at $.01/kilobyte, or $10.24 per megabyte. Information Superhighway robbery.

I tried attaching a generic AT&T data plan ("MEdia Net") to the SIM. It seemed to work at first, but then AT&T's automated daily sweep of subscriber records removed it. The company's policy stipulates that if an iPhone Data Plan is active on an account, no other data plan is allowed.

This is probably no big deal for anyone else, but it's a show-stopper for me. I need to be able to swap that SIM between phones in order to do reviews. If I want to pay the extra $19.95/month for a non-iPhone data plan, AT&T ought to take my money, don't you think?

Posted by Tom Yager on July 4, 2007 08:37 PM

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