I recently bought a cheap crappy Sim card to try and get it to work on a ThinkPad x200. Has anyone here done this successfully before?

I feel like I am just being an idiot. I’m not sure where to go to look for the relevant Sim card information to configure and I’m not even sure if I’m doing anything correctly.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Also keep in mind that in many 1st world countries they’ve almost entirely phased out 2 and 3g so it probably won’t even work.

      In the US it’s almost entirely gone, I’m sure the EU will follow shortly if they haven’t already. I know T-Mobile at least claims they’ve entirely turned off their 2g and 3g except for a few areas, and Verizon is more or less the same.

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        1 year ago

        3g already phased out also in South East Asia… most frequency are used for digital TV

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    1 year ago

    I bought a SIM card for my T470 (4G/LTE) and had no issues; it just worked out of the box. I think it depends on the cell service provider. Reach out to them and ask. Data-only SIMs are more common than you’d think.