April 17, 2010 by Andre
The ‘big 3’ mobile phone networks in the UK have all announced that they have signed up to supply the iPad on its release.
O2, Orange and Vodafone will all supply the more expensive iPad that Apple will be releasing, this model will include both Wi-Fi and 3G mobile internet capabilities.
For anyone out there thinking that they may be able to put their current iPhone sim-card into the iPad, think again. Apple have been quite cheeky and have made the iPad work via a micro sim-card so users will have to sign up with a network in order to use 3G services on their tablet.
None of the networks have given any information about what sort of price plans they will be offering, this information is likely to be released along with the iPad pricing system on the delayed date of May 10th.
T-Mobile customers need not be too disheartened as the company have announced that talks with Apple are ongoing and that customers will be updated when more information becomes available.
All of the networks are planning to tie the iPad price plans with the current price plans provided for the iPhone meaning that a customer already on an iPhone contract will be given a micro-sim for use with their iPad costing them an additional monthly fee on top of their current contract.
Apple, however, favour the idea of a pay as you go system allowing users to pay only for the amount of broadband access they use rather than having to rely on contracts, this should in turn make the networks offer both options.
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