What you people are suggesting is imminent, but there other factors that had informed the designers of GSM in their choice of a SIM card, not just security. Change of the network access mechanism (SIM or programmed), will be more of a paradigm shift rather than fancy designing, as in it will be driven by change in technology from the network operator and standardization point of view... On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
William - you have nailed it on the head, the operator's have always resisted these efforts, but for how long? I believe in the next few years (3-5yrs IMHO), some operators will begin accepting this - For example, if Apple insits that they will forge ahead with no SIM iPhones, and approach a few operators for exclusivity, the benefits actually outway the odd's - and for sure Apple is hell bent on pushing this through. The questions of security and authentication has already been addressed, look at the white papers on the same.
./Ok3ch
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:59 PM, William Muriithi <william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:
it will happen soon. Im giving it the next decade. physical sim cards
are
the biggest bottleneck to innovation at the moment especially while doing things around M2M communications. I'm already seeing alternatives for what the SIM does best, authentication and identification.
gitau
Interesting, I did not think it was possible to dump SIM cards. Do you mind mention the viable alternatives you are seeing for those a tad curious ?
The reason I though we need them is I would not think the cellphone companies would trust a programmable solution for reason of protecting their revenue. How would they be certain whoever is trying to authenticate is the valid user if that data can be easily changed? And if we make it programmable once, would that in essence lock the phone to one cellphone company?
Regards,
William
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com>
wrote:
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/55428.php?s=h
I think we should not even have SIM cards, every phone should be programmable to any network - that was also once Apple's vision
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