Verizon 4g activation question

[SEAL62505]

Hi, I have never used 4g LTE before. Typically a CDMA phone needs to be activated by the device unique ID for 3g service. However, LTE uses a SIM card.

So does that mean for Verizon LTE devices that there is essentially 2 activations
- One for the 3g service (tied to the device unique ID)
- One for the 4g LTE service (tied to the SIM that is inserted into your device)

The reason I ask - If I were to get an iPad with LTE, could I swap my SIM out and put it into a Verizon LTE Mifi - If so, would that give the mifi only 4g service, or 4g + 3g?

Thanks!

 

[podspi]

I can't answer from experience, but from what I've read the phone is activated on 3G, and logs onto the 4G network from there.

As a result, you can't swap 4G sim cards ... yet.

You might want to ask a VZW rep though, they should be able to answer that question very easily. (And let us know what they say!)

 

[sswingle]

All you do is pop in the SIM and you are good to go. And yes you can swap your SIM between devices with no further activation needed. I'm guessing the SIM has the ID as opposed to the phone. Never had to get a replacement SIM so I can't say how that works.