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Re: Twilio Super SIM

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Post by j1elo »

mtw wrote: post #6

Can 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

I can relate. I just paid a total of CA$50 for a 1GB prepaid SIM card. Crazy stuff. I don't understand how nobody appears offering half prices, it's clearly possible given they are overcharging a whole lot right now... and doing so seems that would win a lot of customers instantaneously

Re: Twilio Super SIM

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Post by wittedhaddock »

mcrae wrote: post #145
vertis wrote: post #137

I got really confused when I first saw this and though it was something for consumers not IoT devices (Sorry twilio team for the application for access shrug ). I really wish someone would nail this for consumer phones. I'm coming up on a year away from home in various countries and the constant sim swapping is beginning to get annoying. I actually bought a dual sim phone so that I can keep my Australian sim card in…

I’m totally with you. The dream would be to have a single SIM which roams globally and to which you could attach multiple numbers from various countries. Closest I’ve found is https://www.truphone.com/ but they seem not to offer individual plans.

Why do you want multiple numbers? Doesn't something like Whatsapp or FaceTime help prevent you from needing them?

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Post by wittedhaddock »

mxwll wrote: post #128
zrail wrote: post #113

Slightly off topic. I’m trying to find a SIM for my LTE modem (AT&T/T-mobile bands) that I got as a backup for my Comcast service. I’m looking for pay as you go with no or minimal monthly fees, a reasonable 4g price, and a fallback to unlimited 3g. Does anyone know of a data plan like that? I tried to use Twilio Wireless but they don’t have the fallback option.

Comcast offers Xfinity Mobile to their internet customers for free. You pay as you go for the data you use ($12/GB). You could probably tether a smartphone for data use.

What do you mean "for free" ?

Re: Twilio Super SIM

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Post by kalleboo »

wittedhaddock wrote: post #152
mcrae wrote: post #145

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I’m totally with you. The dream would be to have a single SIM which roams globally and to which you could attach multiple numbers from various countries. Closest I’ve found is https://www.truphone.com/ but they seem not to offer individual plans.

Why do you want multiple numbers? Doesn't something like Whatsapp or FaceTime help prevent you from needing them?

That works for people you meet socially, but may be less accepted for business. There's also the case of e.g. Uber drivers calling you to ask for directions to where you are.

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Post by [deleted] »

tibiapejagala wrote: post #88
walterbell wrote: post #63

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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.

It's amusing that they went through all the pain of making a global SIM to make it available only for the US residents.

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Re: Twilio Super SIM

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Post by mcrae »

wittedhaddock wrote: post #152
mcrae wrote: post #145

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I’m totally with you. The dream would be to have a single SIM which roams globally and to which you could attach multiple numbers from various countries. Closest I’ve found is https://www.truphone.com/ but they seem not to offer individual plans.

Why do you want multiple numbers? Doesn't something like Whatsapp or FaceTime help prevent you from needing them?

Mostly for business. Maybe some people are comfortable to Whatsapp you, but it's inappropriate for a lot of situations.

Also, in a lot of places you need a local number to get things done. Like when making reservations at restaurants or you leave your number in the POS to have them text when a table is ready, etc.

As it is, I have a dual SIM Android phone as well as an iPhone and have 3 postpaid plans in different places. Massive pain.

Re: Twilio Super SIM

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Post by birdman3131 »

subsubsub wrote: post #143
andrewkirk wrote: post #96

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PM for the Super SIM here. The problem we're trying to solve here isn't so much that the devices moves between countries, that's somewhat solved, especially in the EU. We want to help companies that deploy devices globally simplify their logistics and supply chain by being able to use a single SIM regardless of the destination of the device.

Will there ever be a consumer offering along these lines? (i.e. i am travelling around and don't want to have to get travel SIMs in every different country I visit).

Amazon kindle used to do this back in the day. Then people started tethering them and then all the kindle 3's and before got limited to 50 mb/month. (Later ones just had no internet outside amazon/wikipedia iirc)

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Post by blago »

syedkarim wrote: post #111
blago wrote: post #77

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This looks pretty expensive compared to prices in South East Asia too. You pay between $10 - $30 for a prepared SIM with 10-15 gigs which comes down to $0.001 - $0.003 per megabyte.

With the plans you mentioned, how much do you pay per month if you use only 1 MB?

I see your point

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Post by sbr464 »

walterbell wrote: post #49
32032141 wrote: post #2

I've been wondering for a while what the purpose of all the NB band LTE stuff is even for. The going rate is often around 40c/MB in most countries (lower on Twilio by the looks of it, but the same order of magnitude), which seems like there's some very specific high value-per-byte application intended. Some of the technologies people are touting for very long battery life have transmission latencies of 10+ seconds as…

There are also LEO satellite networks on the way. Is it feasible to use physical RF shielding for devices?

What’s interesting is a lot of new IoT devices operate or can fallback to a mesh or gateway mode configuration, for example, a group of common sensors that work together. So you’d potentially need to block Bluetooth, ZigBee, WiFi, LTE/GSM, GPS (messaging over GPS) and others to account for different radio technologies.

Re: Twilio Super SIM

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Post by SiVal »

zachberger wrote: post #149
subsubsub wrote: post #143

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Will there ever be a consumer offering along these lines? (i.e. i am travelling around and don't want to have to get travel SIMs in every different country I visit).

Google Fi is great for this. Wherever I land abroad I'm connected within a minute and pay the same data rate that I do while at home.

What phone do you use for this or is it multiple phones, and what SIM or is it multiple SIMs?
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