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All iPads AT&T iPad working with T-mobile 4G LTE!

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CollinFX45

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Hey All,

Been browsing for a while, but decided to sign up after some mild success this morning. I just thought I'd post and let people know that I decided to try out a T-mobile prepaid SIM in my iPad 4th Gen today (AT&T version which has the AWS band) and to my surprise, I saw the LTE icon for T-mobile! I have been using it on AT&T for a while, but I really want to drop AT&T as their prices aren't great for data. Anyway, can't speak to the Verizon version (which apparently supports international LTE much better), but I can confirm that a non-jailbroken iPad 4th gen from AT&T works fine on T-mobile. Just for kicks, I turned off LTE and tried it on their HSPA+ and that worked fine as well. I'm in San Jose and I guess I'm one of the lucky seven cities for their LTE service, but again HSPA+ worked fine.

Sorry if this is posted in the wrong forum. I know it's somewhat of a "carrier" topic, but just thought I'd share the news as I searched high and low for this information and found nothing before I tried it out. Happy to be a guinea pig :)

-Collin-
 
jav6454 said:
It must be that T-Mobile just turned on LTE in your area. The chip in it already supported the AWS frequency.
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Yep, they did last week I think. And I just got the T-mobile SIM this morning to try it out as an experiment. Pleasantly surprised of course. There's a lot of discussion about getting the iPhone 5 to work on the T-mobile LTE band, but I read zero posts about the iPad. Anywho, back to some speed tests :)

-Collin-
 
I also have the AT&T 4th gen and I live in the East Bay. Good to know there are choices, although I'm on a mobile share plan with 5 devices so it is only costing me an extra $10 a month for my iPad.
 
Monthly charges:

1.5GB for $25
3.5GB for $35

I did the 3.5GB just to try it out.

The AT&T mobile share plan is okay too, but I plan to drop AT&T when the contract is up in a few months.

-Collin-
 
CollinFX45 said:
Monthly charges:

1.5GB for $25
3.5GB for $35

I did the 3.5GB just to try it out.

The AT&T mobile share plan is okay too, but I plan to drop AT&T when the contract is up in a few months.

-Collin-
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We need a unlimited data only tmobile fo $50
 
KeepCalmPeople said:
Seems to me that all of T-Mobile's unlimited data plans have throttling after X number of GB each month.
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I was not throttled on my iPhone 4 unlimited 3G data and unlimited hotspot. Once I switched to the iPhone 5 I was throttled, I had to change my plan from the $49 per line to $59 per line (w/8% discount) to get back my unlimited data unthrottled. I'm not sure how these no contract packages work. What does tmobile consider high speed data? 3G? 4G? or just LTE?
 
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