GSM license approval for HAR2009

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Stefan Schmidt stefan at datenfreihafen.org
Wed Jul 22 17:36:16 UTC 2009


Hello.

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 19:10, Dieter Spaar wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:32:28 +0200, "Stefan Schmidt" <stefan at datenfreihafen.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, another idea pops up into my mind right now. Any chance we can get a big
> > bunch of pre paid SIMs without money on the account? If we would get some 100s
> > of them we could prepare them in advance and just hand out to the people.
> 
> Kai Muenz mentioned it on the list already, there are GSM SIMs available
> at http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.16159. 10 pieces cost $US 3.94
> including shipping. If you don't mind about a Chinese SIM Toolkit Menu which
> you can't read and also don't mind to remove a little bit of glue from
> some of the SIMs, they are fine for this purpose.

Hmm, if we would calculate with 200 cards we would have ~80 USD costs for them.
Maybe not the baddest thing. Let's wait to what conclusion we come here before
going ahead. A technical solution that let the user handle the registration on
it's own is still my favorit. Sadly we can't estimate how many subscribers we
will get. :)

regards
Stefan Schmidt




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