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Originally Posted by judojorge
the att service isn't quite the same as advertised on the apple site, there were different tiers of data and pricing and there is a 10 dollar fee above it every month. It's actually not a prepaid plan but a postpaid, yet there is no contract (kind of odd I think). My ATT plan is called Mobile Share 4GB and costs $30 a month plus the $10 plus there was an activation fee. I was just too impatient to wait but I'm thinking if you buy a ATT nano sim off of ebay or amazon you could probably just activate ATT service on the iPad thereby saving money on activation and the extra 10$ monthly fee. Could somebody please verify this?
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AT&T has 3 plans that an iPad can be put on.
The first is a Share Everything plan, where the charge is $10/mo plus a whatever bucket of data you purchase to share amongst devices. This can be activated on the device on in a store.
The second is the DataConnect, a postpaid tablet plan which is $15/30/50 for 250MB/3GB/5GB. If you go over, you are automatically billed $10 and given another 1GB of data. This can be activated on the device or in a store, there can be an activation fee assessed.
The last option is called session based, it is prepaid, you can buy for the day, week or month. Once your data limit is reached, you are cut off. This can only be activated on the device, but you need a sim card from the store (its free). There is no activation fee. Many store employees and even some Customer Care Reps are unfamiliar with this plan.
I had a grandfathered unlimited plan, so I couldn't add a tablet on it and share the data. I put it on the DataConnect plan, I get a bill for every month, just like my cell phone. I recently bought another tablet and put it on a session based plan. There is no bill, I'll buy data for it as needed, by turning on/off the autopay. The postpaid plans are good for tablets that need data access continuously, it is cumbersome for intermittent use (new sim, activation fee each time). The session based plans can be stopped and restarted without consequence.