snagitseven

Feralc, a question...if I get the T-mobile free sim for my AT&T 3G iPad, can I assume it will only give me 2G speed? Would it even work in the AT&T iPad?

BigDawg

Thanks.

feralc

No you get LTE speed, that is why they are offering it they are trying to steal clients from other companies.
An ATT sim will only give you 2g in the MMI because the band ATT uses for 3G is 2G in Tmobile, BUT a Tmobile SIM card will get 3G and LTE in an ATT device because the bands TMobile uses for 3G and LTE are used by ATT too.
Does this makes sense?

DirkM

We have AT&T iPhone 4, 4S and 5 as well as Verizon iPhone 5S and iPad Air on tmobile and get 4G/LTE in Chicagoland but it depends on your location and whether or not tmobile has updated (re-farmed) their equipment. Before the update, non-LTE AT&T devices may only get 2G on tmobile.

cyberdentist

I have an update. I got a regular Tmobile prepaid sim (not the one for Data specifically) and used that in the Audi, everything works perfectly but of course It costs $3/day. i tried it for 2 days just to play with all the features. So technically Tmobile does not block Audi cars if you use mobile sim but if you use data only sim, they limit it to select IMEIs associated with their devices.

feralc

That makes sense because the free data offer is only for tablets, not phones.

weth

This is not entirely correct. If you have a paid data only SIM from T-mobile , it works perfect in the Audi MMI. The problem seems limited to a SIM with free data only.

feralc

Exactly, somehow Audi blocked the free data sim to be used only with tablets, but they didn't do the same with the Audi connect sim because you can use that in a tablet.

snagitseven

So far, at least. There's no way to know what T-Mobile has up its sleeve. If they can do it to one type of sim/device combination, they could decide to do it to others. At the end of the day, for carriers, it's all about control and profit.

kenbob

I posted in a new thread, but am I just lucky,? Tmobile gave me a sim last week with 200mg free a month and it works in my a6 quite well