Cell phone SIM cards for international visitors

[GrtWtNorth]

A UK listener asked how he could get an AT&T SIM card for use in his iPad. I don't have exact details, but I can point them to another thread on this issue. Canadian cell phone providers are notoriously expensive to use in Florida, so there is a massive (+300 post) 'sticky' thread in the Canadian tips section. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1648835
The tips can be divided into three general strategies: paying for roaming packages using foreign carriers, buying US sim cards, or buying US disposable cell phones.

 

[FireDancer]

The iPad in the US uses a microsim, so make sure you receive the correct form factor sim card for your iPad. I am not sure if international iPads use the regular form factor or the micro so make sure to get the right one for your iPad.

 

[luke]

All ipads (and iPhone 4's) use microsims

 

[k5jm]

All ipads (and iPhone 4's) use microsims

You can cut down a regular sim to a micro sim with an exacto knife and use it in an IPAD and Iphone 4. Just make sure that it is an all ready active sim from ATT.

 

[luke]

Yep, meant to be fairly easy to cut it down.
I wouldn't have trusted myself to do it tho but I got microsim with my iPhone and only have a wifi iPad so dodged that pile of scissors and cuts fingers

 

[DiRTyBuNNy]

You can cut down a regular sim to a micro sim with an exacto knife and use it in an IPAD and Iphone 4. Just make sure that it is an all ready active sim from ATT.

$23 for a Micro SIM cutter on Amazon

--DB