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Re: [87attendees] SIM purchase at the IETF (was Re: [87all] IETF 87 Berlin Meeting Review)

"David Lake (dlake)" <dlake@cisco.com> Wed, 21 August 2013 19:25 UTC

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From: "David Lake (dlake)" <dlake@cisco.com>
To: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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OUCH !   $US 0.49/MB !!!! 

Maybe the IETF should go into business at those kind of rates and we would never have to pay registration fees again... 

I'm used to paying around £8/month for 1GB of data on my iPad at roughly £1.00:$1.60

-----Original Message-----
From: John R Levine [mailto:johnl@taugh.com] 
Sent: 21 August 2013 12:14
To: David Lake (dlake)
Cc: 87 Attendees
Subject: Re: [87attendees] SIM purchase at the IETF (was Re: [87all] IETF 87 Berlin Meeting Review)

> It's BEFORE the meeting - for example from the minute the wheels touch 
> the ground or the train crosses the border.  So, ideally, I'd want a 
> pre-activated SIM that I can move into my phone/tablet one or two days 
> before the meeting starts.  That means sending me the SIM in advance 
> of me travelling.

If it's that critical that you not even spend a few hours off the tether, the only provider I know is Telestial, which will mail order SIM cards from countries all over the world:

http://www.telestial.com/


Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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