Lenovo X1 Carbon Mobile Broadband Greyed out

Hello all,
My Mobile Broadband seems to be Greyed out inside of Access connections. I can not switch off from Wifi to anything else
I have put a fresh windows 7 64 bit image onto the system, installed all drivers, followed by Lenovo System Update and all of those updates. I do not see any missing devices in device manager.
I have 5 devices listed under "Network Adapters" inside of device manager
Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI)
Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advances-N 6205
Lenovo USB2.0 Ethernet adapter
PANGP Virtual Ethernet Adapter
If i "show hidden devices" in device manager, i can see the WAN Miniport (IKEv2, IP, IPv6, L2TP, Network Monitor, PPPOE, PPTP, SSTP)
I have tried downloading the driver for the mobile broadband card directly and installing, which happens, but nothing changes. I have also switched out the AT&T card inside the device, thinking it might have been a bad SIM, but nothing changes. Still unable to switch to Mobile Broadband
Has anyone else experienced such an issue or have any idea on what else to try?
Lenovo X1 Carbon
Model: 3444FEU

Except for the SIM card, everything you are seeing is consistent with there not being a mobile broadband (wireless WAN) card in the system, and the Lenovo support site backs that up - there is no WWAN card in the 3444-FEU .
You can verify that by looking under the keyboard, as described in the hardware maintenance manual:
http://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/x1_carbon_hmm_en_0b48811_04.pdf
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