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

[Ole Jacobsen <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, John R Levine wrote:

> I think it's reasonable to expect people to know what kind of phone 
> they have and what kind of networks it will work on before they go 
> looking for SIMs.  In your case it's easy, since CDMA phones don't 
> have SIMs.
> 

Unless of course it is an iPhone. The (CDMA) Verizon iPhone5 for 
example, comes with a Verizon SIM card which may indeed be some kind 
of "dummy," but the important point is that you can insert any GSM SIM 
(allright, nano-SIM) card in the SIM slot since this iPhone ALSO 
supports all the GSM bands and is unlocked for GSM by default.

We can certainly ask local hosts/sponsors to help up identify SIM 
options (I wrote this up for the Hiroshima meeting for example), but I 
agree that it is probably unreasonable to expect someone to man a SIM 
desk for several days, unless of course a local carrier also happens 
to be meeting sponsors (ahem, DT :-), local regulations 
notwithstanding.

And in case anyone is wondering: There is really no such thing as LTE
Roaming, at least not yet.

Ole