Why did they change ccc to be at the same time as defcon instead of end of year?
Demystifying ESIM Technology [video]
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This might be because most countries nowadays require a photo ID for SIM cards. The Netherlands, UK and US are among the few that don't (yet). https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_P...
Photo ID? Then how do you get an anonymous burner phone? Order it online somehow?
The whole rationale of the laws in these countries is that you shouldn't be allowed to get one.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
This might be because most countries nowadays require a photo ID for SIM cards. The Netherlands, UK and US are among the few that don't (yet). https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_P...
Photo ID? Then how do you get an anonymous burner phone? Order it online somehow?
In an increasing number of places, you don't (except perhaps by forcing or convincing someone to let you use their identity). Where I'm at right now, receiving SMS or making phone calls require a subscription with photo ID and physical address - prepaids and travel SIMs are data-only these days. The latter ones also require photo ID for service activation.
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#74For those with multiple phones, how easy is switching back and forth?
Unfortunately, the support for transferring eSIM between devices is not universal and some operators choose not to support it and charge money for each transfer(i.e. charge money to generate a QR code). The tech is fine but the greedy telcos don't miss the opportunity to screw us over.
Really makes me appreciate how good we have it here phone-wise in ireland. You can't be charged for number porting, and the carrier gets a fine if they can't do it in 24 hours. (usually instantaneous) No idea if it's the same with eSIM.
Plus, you can usually keep using the sim from your old carrier and the same number when you switch providers. (sometimes sims need replacing when network upgrades happen)
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The cost. The prices are very high.
I don't consider $25 for 20GB to be "very high". Of course, you can find cheaper. But $25 is less than a lunch in most places.
A lunch is most definitely not close to as high as $25 "in most places" unless you go for upscale fine dining, considering that $25 is above global daily median income.
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#76Why did they change ccc to be at the same time as defcon instead of end of year?
They didn't. This is from Chaos Communication Camp, which takes place every fourth summer. It's the annual Conference that happens in December. The dates for this Camp was announced prior to Defcon dates.
If the conflict is actually intentional after all, I'd also be curious around the history of that.
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Is it a meaningful alternative to Passpoint Wi-Fi in the scenarios you described?
Wi-Fi barely works in a hotel, how is it going to work in a stadium?
Last time I was at a stadium (4 months ago), it seemed to work pretty ok. I suspect that it's setup and maintained by a mobile carrier rather than whoever does IT for hotels is helpful. Most stadiums have a lot of days with minimal activity where you can do an intensive install and tweak session, but hotels are hard to take out of service, so kind of works is good enough.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
If argue that it's the opposite as there is competition and in civilised European countries there is working regulation etc, not like the US where carriers are able to lobby and cheat to maintain their monopolies - case in point I have unlimited everything (Inc 5g, except MMS) in country and 64G in the rest of Europe for about 30 EUR/mo
What do you mean by except MMS? That's not even data
Technically it is data, but it's an archaic system that really should just go away and be replaced by something native to IMS/LTE+ but unfortunately legacy is hard to kill
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What do you mean by except MMS? That's not even data
While unlimited calls/SMS/data* is quite a common offering in Europe, MMS is often not included in such bundles and costs extra. *Genuinely unlimited data - including tethering, no speed limits or soft caps where you get limited to 128kbps or anything like that after using 100GB.
Correct, advertising unlimited with caps is not allowed, unlike the US for example.
In my case they clearly have to say upfront on the cheaper unlimited, it's not rate limited until X but the caps have to be proportionate so it's still absolutely fine, they do have an "always on" thing for capped packages though, so you're never really cut off (data only which does not have such strict regulation as voice/SMS)
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
If argue that it's the opposite as there is competition and in civilised European countries there is working regulation etc, not like the US where carriers are able to lobby and cheat to maintain their monopolies - case in point I have unlimited everything (Inc 5g, except MMS) in country and 64G in the rest of Europe for about 30 EUR/mo
And you can have the same for a similar price in the States. The US cellular market is quite good. Have a look at Canada if you want to see what a cartel looks like.
Last time I was in the US it was pretty bad, I'm not sure comparing to the worst is fair but compared to Europe it's not so great - at the time I had T-Mobile but they differentiated different states etc as they may need roaming domestically - you're just not allowed to do that here