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Forums › Spark New Zealand (including Skinny and BigPipe) › What is the difference between a 3g and 4g SIM card?
Lordmitchell14

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#134058 13-Nov-2013 09:53
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Talking about the technical difference. As far as I can tell, they are identical 64K cards with the same capabilities.

Obviously once you activate your 4g SIM, you can access the 4g services, but that is on Telecom's end.

Anyone know of any differences?

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  #931922 13-Nov-2013 09:59
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Nothing different the reason why you need a new SIM is covered in another thread



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  #932929 13-Nov-2013 10:35
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Has a slightly different STK in there.

But primarily it's a backend requirement as we are in the process of transitioning from one stack to a new stack as part of 4G/LTE.

So the new 4G SIMs exist in both stacks and the 3G Sims only exist in the old one.

Could go into more technical detail, but that's in effect the reason.

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  #932942 13-Nov-2013 10:43
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Thanks for the info! I was just curious.



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  #932952 13-Nov-2013 11:00
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  #932953 13-Nov-2013 11:03
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coffeebaron: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=39&topicid=131048&page_no=8#915051


Don't you mean: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=39&topicid=131048&page_no=7#914739

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  #933520 13-Nov-2013 21:33
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plambrechtsen:
coffeebaron: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=39&topicid=131048&page_no=8#915051


Don't you mean: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=39&topicid=131048&page_no=7#914739



No I think it really needed JohnR's response to make it complete :)




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