Apple products use a Micro SIM, which is a smaller than usual phone chip. Most places you buy such a card. In Sri Lanka, this is not how we do. Dudes at some communication kades just take a normal SIM and chomp it through the cutter. Then they trim it down with a box cutter. Like a baas.
Thing is, not ever com-kade has these things. Hutch sells some Micro SIMs on the street but A) Hutch? and B) you can’t predict where. I walked around for like 20 minutes trying various places till I went to the half-perch across from Unity Plaza. They had the service but charged me Rs. 250 without blinking. It’s like getting someone to staple something. But whatever. He didn’t even cut it straight but it works.
So that’s how to get a Micro SIM in Sri Lanka.
My brother got one directly from Mobitel when he switched to a droid razr. AFAIK Dialog offers em too, they even sold the iPhone for a while right?
Yeah, you can do it direct
Local service providers do have it, but not all outlets. I got one from Dialog in Nawala and another from the Dialog outlet outside Odel. I do believe you can get them over the counter at Dialog (Odel) now for 150 bucks.
In places like the UK, when you get a sim it has perforations so you can use it as a normal-sized version or a micro sim. That will probably come here soon.
I bought a sim cutter for about £3 from Amazon and have used it to modify sims for me and lots of iPhone owners. You should have come to me, Indi :)
Dialog has micros but limited supplies, the Dialog Counter at the airport also cuts the sims down.
how much?
It’s free if you are a priority-customer
Dialog has the dual perforated SIMs at their Darley Road branch. I picked up one a couple of months ago.
I’m not too sure if they have adequate stocks but the lady handing them out seemed to have a reasonable stack SIMs on the counter.