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If you already have an LTE provisioned Verizon sim and put it in the nexus 7, it works beautifully. If you go to verizon and say "i need to buy a sim card for my tablet" and then give them the imei of the nexus 7, they will slap you hands and say no.

This is of course the M.O. of Verizon and was fully expected when compatibility was announced. Verizon refuses to provide service on any device they do not sell. This is likely why the nexus 5 is not coming to verizon. We are watching closely to see if you can take a t-mobile or ATT iphone 5s or 5c and activate it on verizon. Our guess is, NO.

IPPlanMan
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said by Anon80:

If you already have an LTE provisioned Verizon sim

And how do you get this?
elefante72
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Part of the 700Mhz was to provide open access, so you could easily put an activated LTE SIM in an unlocked device, but if you go into Verizon w/ the device they won't give you a new SIM (or more correctly UICC).

Verizon doesn't do BYOP, even on 3rd party (PPC) they don't allow UICC on any MVNO.

I went into Verizon to buy an ipad, and they wouldn't just let me buy the ipad (I was going to move the UICC from my Jetpack to ipad), they wanted me to activate the ipad on a plan. Well f**k you. I had to go to the Apple store, buy the ipad, and put the UICC in.

One interesting thing is once I put the UICC in the ipad, it showed up on my account as an ipad, and if I put the UICC back in the Jetpack they disable it.

So long story short, Verizon is a bunch of commies and does what they want.

As to Nexus 5, go to MVNO and pay half the amount. Verizon can screw.

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said by elefante72:

Part of the 700Mhz was to provide open access, so you could easily put an activated LTE SIM in an unlocked device, but if you go into Verizon w/ the device they won't give you a new SIM (or more correctly UICC).

Verizon doesn't do BYOP, even on 3rd party (PPC) they don't allow UICC on any MVNO.

I went into Verizon to buy an ipad, and they wouldn't just let me buy the ipad (I was going to move the UICC from my Jetpack to ipad), they wanted me to activate the ipad on a plan. Well f**k you. I had to go to the Apple store, buy the ipad, and put the UICC in.

One interesting thing is once I put the UICC in the ipad, it showed up on my account as an ipad, and if I put the UICC back in the Jetpack they disable it.

So long story short, Verizon is a bunch of commies and does what they want.

As to Nexus 5, go to MVNO and pay half the amount. Verizon can screw.

When I dumped Sprint, I had a choice of AT&T and Verizon. It is stories like this that helped me choose AT&T.
BosstonesOwn
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tell them the size and ask for the sim for an ipad

MxxCon
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You are a bit delusional if you think that att is any better than vz.
granted situation was tolerable on 2g/3g gsm. with LTE it is a free-for-all, screw whoever you can screw over.
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said by elefante72:

So long story short, Verizon is a bunch of commies and does what they want.

Actually under communism Gov't would bitchslap VZ for abusing the working class.

What you are reaping here is the product of a capitalistic society where biz puts $ in front of absolutely everything else.
If VZ could make money from murdering and raping people, they would do that.
BiggA
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Phones still have to support CDMA, data-only devices don't necessarily have to. They are so backwards. And AT&T has caught up on the network side. I have a feeling that AT&T will be picking some subs up between those two things.

TheHelpful1
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One could argue they do make money from murdering and raping people when inmates uses cell phones because phone companies lobbied against Prisons being able to block cell traffic inside their walls.
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Those $10 burners are really bringing in the big bucks.