Can I use this in my mobile phone?
Twilio Super SIM
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#62So could one use this as an international works anywhere sim?
I don't think this class of SIMs that Twilio offers are voice capable ... they do provide tmobile SIMs that are voice capable, but they call them something different ...
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#63Forget IOT, I want this for my phone! It sounds almost too good to be true.
Google Fi has $10/GB global LTE for US residents. Multiple SIM cards sharing the same plan, works on non-Google devices too, including mobile hotspots. In the US, they use T-Mobile.
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#64Twilit has been on an absolute tear over the last 2 years. I wasn’t sure what they would do next to innovate, but their evolution to customer support products, authentication solutions and now this are inspired. What sets them apart is that, although they are a US company, they think globally. This product is for a global market, just like their app-based push authentication is (the huge market being Europe which has…
I wish Twilio would figure out some way to accept SMS from short codes. It’s just annoying when I can’t use my VoIP number for 2FA with certain companies (and I realize it’s the companies fault, not the VoIP provider).
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#65Can this do voice calls? I'm in Canada where every cell plan is more expensive than any other in the world. I have friends who purchase plans from Europe and then use the SIM locally with roaming - turns out it be 10x cheaper, the only drawback being that they have a foreign number
This isn't for personal use, so no calls. The data rate is probably around 2-5c/MB for Canada (though its not on the pricing list, that seems to be average), which puts it above even Rogers consumer plans. Google Fi is intended for consumer use and is 1c/MB in Canada (up to a cap, and then unlimited).
"This isn't for personal use, so no calls."
Very little of Twilio is for "personal use" but you can still deploy it as such and there is another class of Twilio SIM product (programmable SIM) that you can do anything (voice, sms, etc.) you want with.
I have built my own little personal telco out of twilio and couldn't be happier ...
Well, except for an verb in twiml - that would make me much happier ...
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think we can expect Starlink to have similar coverage to GPS: great in the country, useless in my bedroom in a multi-story building. Also the expected receiver size for Starlink is an order of magnitude bigger than the one for a cellular network. For phones, tracking, etc the cellular network would still be superior. Something like a car might go with both starlink and cellular because anywhere where one is weak th…
> great in the country, useless in my bedroom in a multi-story building... I'd think it'd work a bit like cable/DSL often does in an apartment company - one receiver for the building.
Or put in on the side of the building like regular satellite dishes. But realistically any apartment building that's not in the middle of nowhere will be better served by fiber anyways. Once you have multiple customers in the same building they will quickly feel the limit of how much bandwidth you can push to a small area throught the air from 500km away.
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#67At a first glance the pricing of $0.10 - $0.025 per megabyte in Europe seems somewhat expensive. The wholesale rate is €4.50 per gigabyte or $0.005c per megabyte. I assume the markup covers the cost of maintaining the account and the access to many networks worldwide. Can anyone who is already using GSM data in "IoT" devices comment on how much this compares to what you pay now?
€4.50/GB is absolutely insane for Europe. In Italy you can get 50GB for €7 From Kena or ho.mobile (€0.14/GB) or 50GB for €8 from Illiad (€0.16/GB). All at 4G speeds.
https://www.kenamobile.it/prodotto/kena-6-99-limited-edition...
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was contemplating doing something similar, especially with eSIM on Apple Watch. Calling you must be a bit of a pain. I just check and calling abroad from Lithuania is still 0.5 euro per minute...
No, I just have a dual-sim phone(OnePlus 5T) - for data and calls in UK I have a proper British sim. But whenever I need to call my family or anyone in Poland, I just dial from the second(Polish) sim, and call for free, using the minutes that come with my Polish contract(and they can call me for free on my Polish number as well). It's also pretty useful whenever I'm somewhere in the UK that doesn't have a good signal…
Then we leave EU, alas and no of the consumer friendly law applies.
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#69Forget IOT, I want this for my phone! It sounds almost too good to be true.
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#70Twilio: If anyone there is listening, please, please give us an verb in twiml ... it's the simplest thing and would be tremendously useful.
I don't want to host offsite code or write complicated functions just to CC: an SMS to my email inbox ...
A twiml verb would be simple and useful.