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In London and Need to Use iPad 2!?!?
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Go to an O2 store and pick up an iPad sim or one of the apple stores will help u.
Failing that Starbucks!
Go to an O2 store and pick up an iPad sim or one of the apple stores will help u.
Failing that Starbucks!
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Thanks Gav2k! I wasn't aware there was a spot on it for a sim. Many thanks!
Thanks Gav2k! I wasn't aware there was a spot on it for a sim. Many thanks!
Interesting that your AT&T sim didn't auto switch to O2 and just charge you at the overseas rate. I go back and forth from several Euro countries and the US and my sim just alternates from AT&T in the US, Movistar in Spain, O2 in the UK, etc... Seems kind of weird that you are having issues.
But yeah, failing getting a sim from O2 or Apple, plenty of Wi-Fi hotspots in London as mentioned above.
That is most likely because data roaming is turned off by default (and with good reason, since the roaming charges can easily add up to hundreds of dollars with just some moderate browsing). Also, I think you need to buy an additional international package in order to use the AT&T iPad plan outside the US.
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You don't get international access on the iPad prepaid plan that you sign up with on the device. I think you can call and have them add it at a $200/200MB rate (straight ripoff), but you're better off just buying a foreign sim with a set data allotment.