USA local SIM card

Sun Sep 17 21:29:33 UTC 2017

If you are talking about Orlando/Central Florida (or anywhere in FL) now or in next couple of weeks be advised that coverage is still spotty for both voice and data due to the hurricane.

> On Sep 17, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Max Tulyev <maxtul at netassist.ua> wrote:
> 
> Nice advertising, thank you! =)
> 
> But still have open some questions I asked before:
> 
> 1. My phone is not LTE but 3G GSM/UMTS capable (all bands,
> 850/900/1700/1900/2100). Will it work? Is 3G coverage good enough in New
> York and Orlando for VoIP calls (SIP, Viber, Skype)?
> 
> 2. Is there public or private IP address? IPv6?
> 
> On 17.09.17 22:52, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
>> On 2017-09-17 13:07, Max Tulyev wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> AT&T's $45 prepaid pans and its more expemsive sibbling (I think $65)
>> allow over 6GB of data at LTE speeds, and the rest is unlimited but at
>> 2G speeds (I think).
>> 
>> 
>> The AT&T plans at the $45 and higher levels allows data and voice
>> roaming into Canada, as long as your usage in Canada represents less
>> than 50% of total use.
>> 
>> The AT&T plan allows you to remove video throttling (the T-Mobile plan
>> doesn't and has more severe net neutrality violations).
>> 
>> If you obtain a SIM card from eBay, there is a hard to find web access
>> to set it up (normal AT&T web site forces you to buy a SIM card which
>> AT&T won't deliver outside of USA).
>> 
>> https://www.att.com/prepaid/activations/#/activate.html
>> 
>> In my case, I choose AT&T because I tested T-Mobile a few years ago
>> along the route taken and found too many areas without service,
>> interestingly, one area where in 1998-1999, I had service with Omnipoint
>> on a 1900 only phone (Fort Edward NY).
>> 
>> Note on T-Mobile: its coverage map expects you to be on postpaid plans
>> which includes areas where you're allowed to roam on AT&T, but not
>> necessarily if on prepaid, so hard to tell if you will really get
>> service based on its maps.
>> 
>> Also note: AT&T on an iPhone gets to disable the "manual" seach for
>> available carriers, so you can't test in a town if T-Mobile would also
>> be available. You can insert you own SIM card just to scan for networks
>> and with roaming disbaled, you won't encurr any charges by home carrier.
>> 
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