No mystery at all. Telstra offered me a “free” notebook computer some years ago. I did not accept the notebook, but in the package that came ( modem, phone,T box etc) was a sim card. And I still argue with them about the charges they have made for something I never used.
The SIM card was snipped in two and thrown in the re-cycling bin Bill > On 28 Oct 2015, at 08:32, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > I too have been trying to figure why a Mac of any kind would use a SIM card. > I understood SIM cards are for operation of mobile phones. > I thought for a while I was learning something new ! > >> On 28 Oct 2015, at 7:59 AM, Peter Hinchliffe <hinch...@multiline.com.au >> <mailto:hinch...@multiline.com.au>> wrote: >> >> >>> On 27 Oct 2015, at 10:13 am, Anthony (Tony) Francis <antne...@mac.com >>> <mailto:antne...@mac.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Ronni >>> >>> I am beginning to get a little tired of waiting in queues to talk to a >>> Telstra Employee, being assured that the information given will end our >>> frustration with WIFI and DATA download, and then having to return again >>> because we still have a problem, for us to travel it’s a 4 hour return trip. >> >> Let's get some clarification here: >> >> By “Laptop” do you mean iPad? >> >> By “simcard” do you mean SD Card? >> >> Macbooks cannot use sim cards. Any attempt to so so can lead to serious >> damage. Same thing if you try to insert an SD card into an iPad... >> >> Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services >> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer >> Perth, Western Australia >> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Dr Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au
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