Cloning iPhone sim to use in a iPad 3G

[peestandingup]

For those that say this is "stealing", get freaking real. You're already paying to have data service with AT&T with your iPhone (with a monthly inflated price I might add since you're required to carry a voice plan as well), and they want you to pay for it AGAIN just because you use a different device?? It's a ripoff.

That would be like paying saparetly for your laptop & your desktop on your home network.

 

[Simgar988]

For those that say this is "stealing", get freaking real. You're already paying to have data service with AT&T with your iPhone (with a monthly inflated price I might ad since you're required to carry a voice plan as well), and they wnt you to pay for it AGAIN just because you use a different device?? It's a ripoff.

That would be like paying saparetly for your laptop & your desktop on your home network.

lol althought technically it is stealing

 

[peestandingup]

lol althought technically it is stealing

Well sure, in at&t's greedy-ass world it is. But morally, I have no problem with it whatsoever. Not until they let people carry data-only plans on their phones & admit that paying separately for voice, SMS & data is BS since everything is data these days anyway.

Till then, I say go for it.

 

[Simgar988]

Well sure, in at&t's greedy-ass world it is. But morally, I have no problem with it whatsoever. Not until they let people carry data-only plans on their phones & admit that paying separately for voice, SMS & data is BS since everything is data these days anyway.

Till then, I say go for it.

I alreadt tether my jailbroken 3GS

 

[jtara]

But, whats the difference from tethering to your iphone?

None. They're both stealing.

It isn't obvious that the average iPad user is likely to consume more data/month than the average iPhone user? And that the average PC user is likely to consume more data/month than the average iPad user? The pricing reflects this reality.

I don't really like "unlimited" data services, because (a) they are never really unlimited and (b) some jerks take advantage of it, raising the price for the rest of us. But us fat Americans like the potential value prospect of "all you can eat". (A friend of mine used to work at Red Lobster, a popular "all you can eat" restaurant. He told me about the people that sit down to eat, go to the bathroom to purge, and then sit back down to eat again. Ewwwwwww! The solution to such idiocy is the "kilo" restaurant popular in Brazil (and other places?) It's buffet-style and you pay by weight. Allows the restaurant to buy extra mops...)

 

[jahsavi]

Why can't I pay $15 for 250mb on my iphone and get $30 unlimited on my iPad... makes more sense to me.

My iphone is now only going to get voicemail and maybe a few push notifications on that data network. 250mb is all I need on my iPhone. My iPad will be with me most of the time and I will definitely need the unlimited.

 

[goobot]

What I want is to tie my iPad to my iPhone data plan for 5 dollars more a month. AT&T can win cuss they are kinda keeping you from leaving, if you cancel your iPhone data you loose your iPad too. And it's the same data your paying for. Nothing more nothing less. And it promotes iPhone sales ect ect.

 

[Fofer]

This seems like a ideal solution for me. If I got an ipad I'd be using it mostly on Wifi, but it would certainly be nice to have 3G available on occasion without spending the extra for a data plan.

Ideally, i'd clone my iphone sim to put it in my ipad, and keep my ipad on airplane mode with wifi enabled most of the time. If I ran into a situation where I wanted 3G on my ipad, I could put my iphone in airplane mode and then turn the airplane mode off on my ipad. Would this work using AT&T? Obviously they would be able to tell if you were using an ipad on their network, but I wonder if they would really do anything about it as long as you didn't have the sim card in the iphone trying to connect at the same time. Thoughts?

This is exactly what I am thinking about doing, too. Considered it when I first heard both devices use a MicroSIM, and that the iPad is unlocked. And then AT&T jerked us early adopters around by unceremoniously dropping the month-to-month unlimited plan. I don't want to pay every month to retain grandfather status, when all I really need is 3G access 6-7 months out of the year.

Anyway, this tip encouraged me more.

How do you go about cloning a SIM? Have you tried this with any success, with a cloned SIM? Because swapping the SIMs in and out all the time will get tired, fast.

 

[Angryipadguy]

I had duplicate sim cards sent to me about 5 years ago in the uk when I lost my phone. I got a new phone and 2 sim cards. I thougt I would be cleaver and put the second sim card into my old phone to see what would happen. Neither would work until I shut one down from the network. They called me a few days later and said someone had cloned my sim card and tried to use my account so they shut my account down. I told them what happened and what I did and they sent me another sim card. They shut the other 2 down so they couldn't be used again.

 

[willpower101]

The carrier will also know if the equipment changed. If you take your iPhone SIM and put it in a Blackberry long enough your AT&T account page phone icon will change to a Blackberry.

True but they don't care.

I use my ipad sim in my no-contract iphone 4 + skype 24/7 and occasionally switch it back to the ipad.


p.s. Could we keep the moral debates at bay? I'm not interested in what breaks a eula (which technically isn't punishable by law anyway....) I'm interested in what works. Let people decide for themselves what to do with the information.