OK, here's the deal. I just came back from 1 1/2 hours at one of the "larger" VZW corp stores.
I have a feeling THIS sim may actually be bad, VZW agrees with me, 2nd level tech support agrees with me, activations department agrees with me, "iPad specialist" agrees.
But here is the problem. Come hell or high water they will not replace it for me. They WANT to but they can't. Reason they say is this: Unlike AT&T who is GSM and uses sims for everything they only use them for their 4G devices. THEIR COMPANY POLICY does not allow them (at this time) to sell or give away a 4G sim without an ACTIVE account attached to it and the ONLY way they can do that is with a POSTPAID account. They had the sim in their hand but wouldn't (can't) give it to me.
I'm sure if I yelled and screamed and jumped around and made a spectacle of myself I might have been able to get one, however at the age of 65 that is just not in my nature. I'm sure in one VZW store or another one of the workers might "slip one out" but in the 2 stores, the large "major area" store and a smaller mall store they just will not break the policy.
I have an appointment at Apple tomorrow and see if I can either get a new sim or get the device swapped out. I also have another sim on order off eBay from a different seller than the one that is not working. While it is stupid, it is VZW's policy right now. Eventually it will have to be changed.
While there they verified that the IMEI was in the system and also manually entered the ICCID so the card SHOULD HAVE been usable but it still was not.
So my issues are twofold:
#1) Bad card
#2) VZW won't replace it.
Oh, it must be a bad card because a friends card works fine. I am still going to go to Apple tomorrow to see what they will do and I will still try another "eBay LTE micro-sim" to see if that works which was the whole point of this fiasco.
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Of course there can be 4G on a prepaid
iPAD account, that's ridiculous. Why does my sister-in-law have a prepaid account and she is getting 38MBps download and it says LTE on the top? Yes, it is prepaid because I set it up. Maybe not where you come from but here in the US there most certainly is. Mine says VERIZON on it and looks identical to the one that came with the iPad and identical to the one used in the VZW iPhone and identical as the one used in the VZW Galaxy Nexus and identical as the one used in the 4G MiFi. It's a Verizon 4G micro-sim.
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