Comments on: It’s time to (finally) kill the SIM card

By: _christofi

_christofi — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:25:29 +0000

1. Not all people have smartphones
2. Not all people have internet connection
3. WiFi does not exist everywhere. (Yes it’s true, some people need to go and live on the countryside and open up their eyes to reality)
4. Unless there is a better solution for a Provider to identify YOU!!! (means your smartphone) that is indeed YOURS (the paying customer) then SIM cards are going to remain with us (in different shapes perhaps)

The only solution I see is: Smartphone designers will embed a device (similar to SIM) in smartphones to work as an identifier and then load the pre-paid packages from Providers either via wifi or network access.

In any case, SIM cards will remain with us in one form or another.

By: ggoldman

ggoldman — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:34:55 +0000

Please take a look at Cell Buddy (www.cell-buddy.com) they are doing just what you are talking about!

By: derrickblogs

derrickblogs — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:40:09 +0000

Never fear goto http://www.needasimcard.com
and sign up it’s only $49.99 plus taxes…
and start making money with your cell phone, we pay you to help refer other members and we don’t use tv or radio to advertise we are helping people make money in America.

By: cfxram

cfxram — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:50:00 +0000

@pingdom Apple made a proposal to do this very thing but the carriers fought back hard. The nano SIM was “plan b”.

By: GM2DBW

GM2DBW — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:20:12 +0000

@pingdom virtual SIM card is high risk operation, old US made technology, first US cell phones were boundled with SIM number

By: stuffiwrote

stuffiwrote — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:18:37 +0000

@pingdom a very interesting read indeed. Thank you.

By: chnorik

chnorik — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:17:00 +0000

no.
we don’t need those plans. 100 text messages. thank you.
we need just an internet. and then we may use our chat clients.
that’s why I do not have a sim card, but I have a smartphone. I use it with own jabber server (which can talk to gtalk), have unlimited voice and sms messaging.
as soon as we all do that carriers will become just internet providers, not more, not less.

By: kinshasha

kinshasha — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:43:51 +0000

@macalba you are correct, worked on desktop, failed on mobile device.

By: artywah

artywah — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:49:29 +0000

Apple actually proposed abolishing the SIM card – the carriers wouldn’t agree and the micro-SIM was the result

By: Peter Jönsson

Peter Jönsson — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:13:56 +0000

Well, when we connect billion of devices to the mobile network there is not enough gold in the world for the SIM cards. So we need to move away from them eventually.