I just got a new Nexus 7, went into a Verizon Wireless store with it and asked for an LTE SIM. They briefly looked at my account and gave me a SIM card and I plugged it into the Nexus 7 and was on my way.
This Jarvis guy is talking about how Verizon tried looking up his device's ESN/MEID which is a CDMA thing. The Nexus 7 doesn't have CDMA. This makes me think that both he and the reps he's been working with didn't understand how CDMA and LTE provisioning works.
Some also caution that on the Verizon network, my
Nexus 7 will connect only if LTE is available; it
will not be able to fail down to slower speeds
as it could on other networks. True; that is how
my Chromebook Pixel works and I am willing to live
with the limitation for the price.
I don't think it's a rehash. Your original comment makes it seem as though Jarvis was expecting LTE plus CDMA fallback, but the quoted portion from his post says he understands there is no fallback and that he only wants LTE.
Yes, but that still leaves the issue of why Verizon would issue you a Nexus 7 SIM while denying officially they can do so, multiple times:
This Jarvis guy is talking about how Verizon tried looking up his device's ESN/MEID which is a CDMA thing. The Nexus 7 doesn't have CDMA. This makes me think that both he and the reps he's been working with didn't understand how CDMA and LTE provisioning works.
Edit: clarification.