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Originally Posted by octothorp
Has anyone actually tried this?
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I have actually done this with a jailbroken phone, and yes, I did have to adjust the apn settings. (Not entirely sure if you'll need to adjust with a legally unlocked phone though). I used a website (unlockit.co.nz) while connected by wifi to do the apn adjustments. You probably already know that if you just want to use the phone functions, no apn adjustments are needed, but the data will not work w/o the apn changes.
The big trick with the gophone sims from ATT are that you have to have a dealer sell you one even though you're don't have a us address (I'm sure they'd take any address, friend hotel etc though. In my case they just used the store address itself). Also for data, you'll want to sign up for a plan (5 bucks for 1 MB, or 20 for 100 MB), which is good for 30 days otherwise the rates are through the roof.
If you travel to and from the states a lot, or are there for a while, I would suggest filling up with $100, as this will not expire for a full year, while lesser amount will expire after months (variable depending on the amount).
Hope that helps.