Gt-sim bad bad bad

easyroam- · 27-07-2009, 12:32

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Originally Posted by f300

The SIM cards cost now a couple bucks, if that (I'm talking about the physical thing, when bought in bulk by a phone company

Your way of the mark!

Roaming sim cards are especially designed and programmed with larger chipsets. A realistic price is more $15/$20 depending on quantity and suppler.

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petkow · 27-07-2009, 19:07

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Originally Posted by easyroam-

Your way of the mark!

Roaming sim cards are especially designed and programmed with larger chipsets. A realistic price is more $15/$20 depending on quantity and suppler.

Are you serious?

Obviously not wanting to dispute this with an expert, but just hoping to learn something here... apart from the auto-callback trigger, what makes them so very different from the contract SIM (64K I think) that I have from o2?

f300 · 02-08-2009, 16:58

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Originally Posted by easyroam-

Roaming sim cards are especially designed and programmed with larger chipsets. A realistic price is more $15/$20 depending on quantity and suppler.

I'm not disputing the amount, probably you don't have other choices. However just looking around I've noticed something that might put things into perspective: you can buy nowadays a Nokia prepaid including a Vodafone (I think) prepaid card for 9.97 EUR. And that includes shipping (amazon.de) if you buy more than 20EUR merchandise (which isn't hard). So a current, new (yes, basic and simlocked) phone with everything (battery, charger, SIM) is much cheaper (retail!!!) than a SIM card (wholesale).

So on one side we have EU-roaming with 0.19EUR incoming/0.43 EUR outgoing EU-wide (including to EU mobiles) even for the lousiest prepaid in EU. On the other side you have huge costs like 67$ shipping or 15-20$ SIM card (before anybody in the chain even starts thinking about a profit and before the customer actually using any service). In the end it's really tough to grow (or even keep) such a business and I respect anybody that even tries.