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Instead of a SIM with one number that works across countries, the article discusses routing both a belgian and a luxembourgian number to the same SIM. The custo
by phlo 11y ago
Instead of a SIM with one number that works across countries, the article discusses routing both a belgian and a luxembourgian number to the same SIM. The customer is then apparently billed by both telcos, depending on where they currently are. This seems like the worst solution to the roaming problem out there: Multiple phone numbers, relations to multiple carriers...
With (existing) competitors like OneSimCard or Project Fi, you get a single phone number, a single bill and (what seems to me like) a much better deal. Am I missing something there?
- rb2k_ 11y agoYou are right in that it seems like a impractical solution and the providers should just figure out roaming. As far as the competition goes: OneSimCard charges 25 cents per Megabyte, Project Fi doesn't really exist since you need an invite and it doesn't work on most phones.
- pjc50 11y agoRoaming exists, works, and is often horribly expensive to the user. This is basically a system for arbitraging that away using two numbers on one SIM rather than two SIMs.