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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