Difference between AT&T and Verizon iPad 4G

Logic and Verizon, not words you encounter often in the same sentence. It will be interesting to see whether newer intl Android phones also have a CDMA card.

Its not a cdma sim card its the 4G LTE technology on verizon that is sim card based. So basically with the new verizon ipad one can access 4G through the sim card in the US and also 3G EVDO through the extra cdma radio. If you do not want verizon then one can just swap the 4G SIM card for any of the GSM/UMTS micro-SIM cards.

So as far I can understand from the specs at apple website this time it looks like verizon model definitely has the edge since that one lets you access verizon 4G, 3G and the ability to use GSM/UMTS/EDGE internationally too if you do not want to pay roaming by just swapping out the sim card. ATT model will only let you use 4G/UMTS/GSM/Edge but no EVDO. So in a nutshel:

VZW model: 4G LTE+CDMA/EVDO+GSM+UMTS+EDGE

ATT model: 4G LTE+GSM+UMTS+EDGE

As long as the models are not carrier locked verizon model definitly works better in the US and now has the same technology access internationally that ATT used to previously have.

It differs only on what you will call it. It is a sim card enabling CDMA based 4G network and often these cards are called UIM card (if I remember correctly). It has been reported that after jailbreak, Verizon Iphone4s can accept sim (UIM) card from a Taiwan carrier which is based on CDMA technolodgy.

Well semantics aside looks like people are already experimenting. Per some reviews people have already got the verizon model working on ATT and T-mobile networks by swapping out the micro-SIM card.

Looks like this model will be totally global.....

I just popped my AT&T iPhone SIM in my Verizon iPad and it's working flawlessly.

I'm a newly graduted doctor & living now in Moscow, Russia.

I'm using my New Apple iPad (3rd Generation) AT&T 4G LTE model in local Russian GSM-Cellular 3G network Beeline/Megafon/MTS without any problem.

my New Apple iPad (3rd Generation) AT&T 4G LTE model working 100% perfectly here in Moscow, Russia with any of local Russian GSM-Cellular 3G network Beeline/Megafon/MTS.

since Verizon is basically CDMA Network. Though the New Apple iPad (3rd Generation) Verizon 4G LTE model providing GSM-Cellular 3G network services.

Whether the New Apple iPad (3rd Generation) Verizon 4G LTE model will work in Moscow, Russian or any other worldwide GSM-Cellular 3G network other than Verizon in USA..???

Eagerly looking forward to the exact correct information.

Thanks.

Yes, it will work. The AT&T iPad 3 and Verizon iPad 3 are identical. The only difference is that one comes wtih a pre-loaded Verizon LTE SIM and the other comes with an AT&T 3G SIM. That's all. I travel the globe for work and I have been able eto use my Verizon iPad in many countries with no issue. Since the iPads come unlocked you can just go to any 3G provider, buy a prepaid SIM, plug it in, and voila! You have Internet on your iPad and you will be able to tether your other devices to it too.