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andrewkirk commented on Twilio Super SIM twilio.com/wireless/super... · Posted by u/galfarragem

subsubsub · 7 years ago

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).

andrewkirk · 7 years ago

We won't build specifically for consumers, we're targeting customers with 1000+ devices. My plan is to move my T-Mobile consumer subscription to my eSIM on my iPhone X once T-Mobile supports it and then put a Super SIM in my second slot for global data.

andrewkirk commented on Twilio Super SIM twilio.com/wireless/super... · Posted by u/galfarragem

notatoad · 7 years ago

I just signed in to my twilio account and ordered a "sim starter pack" thinking it was this, but if this is still in closed beta, what did i order? how does super-sim differ from the programmable wireless product?

andrewkirk · 7 years ago

Twilio PM here. You ordered a starter pack of our IoT SIMs we launched in partnership with T-Mobile. They connect to TMO in the USA and have broad coverage globally. They don’t have access to ATT or VZW in the USA like the Super SIM.

andrewkirk commented on Twilio Super SIM twilio.com/wireless/super... · Posted by u/galfarragem

untog · 7 years ago

This is very cool tech, but it seems like a niche use-case. It's not made for consumers, and the vast majority of IoT devices barely move, let alone between countries.

But, if I were working for a haulage company and was interested in tracking, say, truck location, speed etc across the whole of Europe I could see this being a great way to do it.

andrewkirk · 7 years ago

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.

andrewkirk commented on Twilio Super SIM twilio.com/wireless/super... · Posted by u/galfarragem

mtw · 7 years ago

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

andrewkirk · 7 years ago

PM for Super SIM here. We're not planning on doing voice calls for the Super SIM, we want to really nail the IoT use case first.

andrewkirk commented on Twilio Super SIM twilio.com/wireless/super... · Posted by u/galfarragem

scurvy · 7 years ago

Until they actually ship and make it GA, I reserve the right to call this vapor ware like the rest of the Twilio announcements in the past year. When is VPN for programmable wireless going to ship? Never?

andrewkirk · 7 years ago

PM for Super SIM here. We're running this as a closed beta now, hard at work getting it to GA.

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andrewkirk · 8 years ago

Great work, such a useful hardware and software package. A few months too late for our project, will use for next year.

andrewkirk commented on Twilio Video – Real-time WebRTC video infrastructure twilio.com/video... · Posted by u/timdorr

kolencherry · 11 years ago

Are there any plans for Twilio to integrate this with the SIP side of things (e.g. Twilio providing a media server to enable WebRTC clients to communicate with SIP clients and also call out to traditional phone clients?)

andrewkirk · 11 years ago

I wrote this http://www.siptowebrtc.com/ that uses our SIP interfaces and PSTN to connect to our WebRTC client. I'm going to put the code up on Github after I clean it up but I'd be happy to talk through how it works. andrew at twilio dot com.

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