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Well there is a cost and the challenge of having to deal with all the various carriers across the world. Wifi is mostly universal.
by adreamingsoul 5y ago
Well there is a cost and the challenge of having to deal with all the various carriers across the world. Wifi is mostly universal.
- satori99 5y agoIf Amazon Kindles can do it, it's probably not too hard for the likes of LG, Samsung, or Sony either.
- adreamingsoul 5y agoGood point.
- Siira 5y agoThey don’t work worldwide though.
- gambiting 5y agoI mean, sure, but my TomTom 5000 which I bought like 8 years ago for £200 has a sim card that works worldwide, I've used it all over Europe, briefly in North America and in Martinique, it just has seamless GSM connection wherever you go. If a small satnav manufacter can produce such a device for £200 and clearly afford to pay the subscription fees for nearly a decade(I don't pay anything for having this) then I think it's literally a matter of time until we start seeing this in TVs.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoThere's a lot of carriers around the world, yes, but they're often "subcontractors" to some of the bigger ones like T-Mobile and Vodafone, which often operate a network covering a whole country. Those are more than happy to offer a long term data contract for purposes like this.