Comments on: iPad and Prepaid 3G in SA

By: Businessconsultant468

Businessconsultant468 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:15:00 +0000

My ipad only has SD card slot,so how do i connect to internet using my phone sim card

By: Peter Wallach

Peter Wallach — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:43:00 +0000

i arrived from london on sunday 1st jan, picked up a micro sim for my ipad from the Oliver Tambo airport vodacom outlet with 500mb PAYG, and was surfing happily – until vodacom sent me a message on tuesday 3rd saying would i like to update my settings – foolishly i said yes, it changed the APN from wireless to ipad.vodacom.za and i was then told i had run out of my 500mb (though i had only used 70mb); the local vodacom shop (after waiting nearly an hour while customers bought iphones and ipads) couldn’t help me as the service they needed was offline!!! they gave me a number to ring which answered after more than half an hour then lost the call (you would think vodacom could identify the caller and ring me back but no such luck), so in desperation i bought another 500mb – found i now couldn’t access the data service!!! so changed my APN setting back to internet and all was well – but i wanted to know if i had lost the original 500mb – so i phoned data services, waited over 40 minutes this time, and then lost the call again (vodacom on my cell too) – utterly frustrated, i read this post and found a suggestion somwhere that led to a vodacom app – but then found i couldn’t use it to register my ipad sim (note your tel number is your user name and they also need the last 5 digits of the sim serial number) – so did that on the PC via the vodacom portal – and could immediately see that i still had my first 500mb with just some used, and the the whole of the second 500mb – a very useful website – but I had also reset my cellular usage on the ipad when i loaded the first 500mb and found this matched the figure on the portal - can’t understand why vodacom don’t suggest registering the ipad sim on their website as the portal information would have saved me enormous grief and helped me think vodacom provide an amazing service instead of hating them for their abysmal service on the telephone! and suggesting to change my network setting!!! if i hadn’t discovered the portal, i would have have switched to mtn for the future!

By: Leané du Plessis

Leané du Plessis — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:47:00 +0000

You are the best and you were the only guy who could help me figure this out!! Thanks so much

By: Mike Hean

Mike Hean — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:34:00 +0000

Does anyone just have a simple step by step process of activating the sim card and acessing the internet on ipad2.
I have purchased the micro sim card: got the ‘telephone number’ assigned to the card, bought R 220 worth of airtime through internet banking. I have full Vodacom Sa signal but cannot go on internet.

Mike

By: Jtpettigrew

Jtpettigrew — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:43:00 +0000

cool info guys but if i could add some input > when i brought my i pad 2 opened it up and realised i neded a micro sim alls i did was take the micr sim holder out of the ipad and took some fine sandpaper
and gently narrowed the size of my original sim then i jst slid it into the ipad without the micro sim holder and it works like a bomb havent had a days problem and if i want to recharche my data i jst pull it out with fingers pop it it my cell and transfer my airtime to data . simple no need for triming sims and complicating things .

By: melin

melin — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:23:00 +0000

Oh man thank you. Was I struggling until I came across your post. My dad died recently, just after we bought him an ipad – now my mother will be using it but was really struggling to get it going; did not help anyone feel any happier! Thanks a mil.

By: shamiel

shamiel — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:40:00 +0000

Paid R19.00 for the Vodacom micro-sim swap, changed the APN to ‘ iphone.vodacom.za ‘ and my ipad2 was connected to the internet, happy days……………

By: Apathy

Apathy — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:34:00 +0000

great find…..but can anyone help me send SMS’ using the iPad2 carrier? please inbox me on eleibach@qrent.co.za or apathy@homemail.co.za……otherwise facebook/bladder777. im really battling, thanks peeps!!!!

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:08:00 +0000

Hi
Thanks for the helpful info! The APN name was my missing link! Now the ipad connects nicely!
Nice one

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 May 2011 07:28:00 +0000

@a07674c1e2d60c1b5a0cee39136c1826:disqus Please share the link to the app in the iTunes store