Next month im going to the US for a bit of a o.e. and im taking my 3g iphone and i want to use data on it, but not use my vodafone sim and get charged crazy amounts for roaming data. I have been researching round the internet.

Best solution i have come up with:

• Buying a at&t gophone sim card


• ringing customer service and request a data plan


• Then go to unlockit.co.nz on a wifi connection and installing the custom at&t apn.

I have also found that you can do a similar proces with t-mobile, but i am picking you would mainly get a edge data connection? has any one had any experence with this? how was it?

More questions:

1. Am I able to do the first senario with at&t and has somone sucessfully tryed this recently? As i have heard of at&t blocking the data even with the reconfigured apn from unlockit.co.nz.


2. Can i install multiple apns before i leave to cover my bets? eg keep the current vodafone apn and add in at&t and tmobile. Just incase i have trouble finding a wifi connection to access unlockit.co.nz.

I have also researched mrsimcard.com but this seem to be a very expensive way to buy a sim car, but there would be less risk involed.

Any advice or experiences would be much appreciated

Cheers!