Thread: Verizon Testing iPads on Their Network
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Old 06-03-2010, 04:37 PM   #9
Tamara
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Do AT&T have some kind of exclusive deal with Apple in the US? It seems a little strange, looking at it from the European perspective. Here you can buy a SIM from any operator you want and use it with the iPad - there's no "tie-in" to a single operator. Eg, Apple stores in the UK have 4 different SIMs on offer - just buy the one you want.
There is no exclusive for the iPad. We have two GSM providers in the US - ATT and T-Mobile. T-Mobile uses a different standard for 3G but if you trim a T-Mobile SIM, you can use it in an iPad on their Edge network.

The other two major carriers use CDMA which is incompatible with GSM.
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