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I strongly disagree on the first point. The carriers used are entirely an issue with my carrier. I don't use a phone that's in any way associated with my carrie
by 0xTJ 5y ago
I strongly disagree on the first point. The carriers used are entirely an issue with my carrier. I don't use a phone that's in any way associated with my carrier, and I expect the SIM card to "just work" when I put it in a phone.
- lxgr 5y agoWould you rather have to copy-paste an arbitrary list of parameters into some preference menu option every time you travel internationally? (Ironically, SIMs are falling short on this end quite a lot since they don't allow providing GPRS and MMS related configuration, which means that now we have SIMs and manual lists...)
- 0xTJ 5y agoI'm confused by what you're saying. I'm disagreeing with the comment saying that SIM cards being smart is bad.
- lxgr 5y agoAh, sorry, I must have misunderstood you or mixed up comments! Yes, I agree that SIMs being (moderately) smart helps them to just work in a new phone without any affiliation with the carrier. It's not perfect, though – APN settings are annoyingly part of the OS when they should arguably be a SIM and baseband implementation detail like the SMSC, for example.