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visiting France with a 3G iPad only - prepaid sims ?
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Hi guys,
I'll be visiting Paris in January for a few days, everything on a very tight schedule. I was wondering if there's some sort of prepaid sim card that I can buy just to get internet access for the trip ? Something like AT&T's iPad data plans ? If there is such a thing, is it available at the airport ?
Thanks and happy holidays !
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Isn't the iPad's sim slot smaller than normal? You can get sim cards for phones in France but I'm not sure if you can get them for the iPad's sim slot.
If you're in Paris, you'll have wi-fi in a lot of places, probably in your hotel as well. Then there's always McDonalds.
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From what little I understood after browsing through Orange's France website, is that they offer a bunch of iPad plans, monthly, etc, so I'm assuming that they already have the microSIM cards available ...
Anyway, what I need to figure now is if they sell something like 200MB/15EUR or something like that, hopefully, at the airport.
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Yes, the iPad uses microSIM, which shouldn't be a problem overseas.
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Sorry, I wasn't being clear. I know that you can get pre-paid phone sims (e.g. 5 hours for 15€), but I don't know if you can get pre-paid phone sims that fit in the iPad.
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From what I understand, most iPad data plans are monthly. Getting a sim should not tie you down in any way.
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You could just trim down that regular sim to fit iPad/microSIM.
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