We use singtel uSIM with a regular down to earth mobile phone via an adapter personally manufactured by me with a sophisticated tool set consisting of scissors, piece of thin plastic sheet and double sided adhesive tape (depending on your SIM card holder) . If you are not that much into manufacturing business you can buy an adapters for SDG5 and it should work with a mbb modem.aster wrote:There are some good prepaid microSIM deals for the iPad from Starhub and M1, even though the regular mobile broadband offers are much more expensive.
Is there any way to use the microSIM with a regular laptop for cheaper internet access?
the telcos would want consumers to think that way, to cash in on ignorance.x9200 wrote:Better value? - How? How the company loses anything just because you use a different device providing there are some data bundles and similar technical capabilities?
Maybe in a third world telco country like the US, tethering is prohibited but I assure you that if you have a data plan in Singapore, you can tether your iPhone and use 3G data all day long.durain wrote:you need to double check this with the telco T&C but from what i know...
a SIM (normal or micro SIM) for use with a smartphone (iPhone, Android, Symbian, blackberry) are usually not allow to tether (this is where you connect the device to your computer to surf the net). also, the SIM for smartphone is voice and data, therefore the telco is hoping to make some money out of your vocie call. so if you use the SIM on a iPad which is data only, they are losing on the voice call.
data usage on tethering is also higher than on a smartphone, and that's why surfing the net on an iPad is not the same as on the iPhone (in terms of data).
If you look at the 60-day plan there's some little print underneath:Strong Eagle wrote:I don't see the differentiation between microSIM and SIM cards that you do. Seems to me, you choose a microSIM for a phone, a SIM card and USB stick, otherwise. Then, the plan prices are the same for either SIM.
http://www.starhub.com/broadband/onthem ... epaid.html
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