“Engadget has confirmed that AT&T will allow iPad 2 users who purchased an unlimited data plan for the original iPad last year to continue using their plan with the iPad 2,” Jesse David Hollington reports for iLounge.
Hollington reports, “It is not yet known whether existing iPad Wi-Fi + 3G users will need to go through an activation process with AT&T to transfer their plan to the new device or can simply move over their existing micro-SIM card.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We have those unlimited data plans on our iPad 3G units. Before this news, we were pretty much settled on switching to Wi-Fi-only iPads and using our iPhone 4s with hotspotting enabled – we always have our iPhones with us anyway. Now we’re a tiny bit less sure. What do you think? Should we hang onto those increasingly rare unlimited data plans and get 3G-capable iPad 2s instead?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Andrew W.” for the heads up.]