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volsfan

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Apr 9, 2008
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Is it possible to make the iphone a go phone in the us? Do any go phones use sim cards?
 
Two ways to do this:

Old iPhone, activate it via iTunes and insure you fail the credit check. You will be offered the GoPhone plans.

or

Buy a Cheap GoPhone and activate it. Take any iPhone including 3G and make sure it is activated. Place the GoPhone sim in the iPhone and now you have a GoPhone iPhone. If you have the 3G iPhone, the 3G service will work perfectly since all that is required to get 3G service is a 3G phone.
 
how would the internet work with the second idea

It would be very expensive and eat up all your minutes in a matter of seconds. Loading one webpage could cost $5+ depending on how many graphics are on the page, several dollars just to load a Google map. Keep doing that and you won't have any account balance for phone calls.
 
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