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Last week I got me a Samsung Tablet with Windows 8 pre-release (at Microsoft's conference). It came with 1 year of pre-paid AT&T 3G broadband wireless. So I cranked it up, created an account, activated the SIM card per the AT&T handout.

Now I want to gift the tablet to a friend of mine, so I need to re-install the OS to wipe out personal information.

My question is this: will the SIM card need to be reactivated after OS installation? The reason I am asking is because I lost the instructions/code for SIM activation.

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closed as off topic by MaQleod, Journeyman Geek, Gareth, Nifle, random♦ Oct 2 '11 at 5:25

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Reinstalling the OS should not affect the SIM card at all. Just like how when you reinstall the OS on a smartphone it still works, or how you can move the SIM card to another phone and use it there.

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