PM for the Super SIM here. The problem we're trying to solve here isn't so much that the devices moves between countries, that's somewhat solved, especially in the EU. We want to help companies that deploy devices globally simplify their logistics and supply chain by being able to use a single SIM regardless of the destination of the device.

Will there ever be a consumer offering along these lines? (i.e. i am travelling around and don't want to have to get travel SIMs in every different country I visit).

We won't build specifically for consumers, we're targeting customers with 1000+ devices. My plan is to move my T-Mobile consumer subscription to my eSIM on my iPhone X once T-Mobile supports it and then put a Super SIM in my second slot for global data.

Google Fi is great for this. Wherever I land abroad I'm connected within a minute and pay the same data rate that I do while at home.

What phone do you use for this or is it multiple phones, and what SIM or is it multiple SIMs?

With Google Fi you have to have a Google Pixel Phone, and it just works. Google is a MVNO so they can buy tower time from any carrier.

Edit: And yeah it's a single SIM.

Unfortunately it's only available to US customers.

This exists, but pricing can be exorbitant and availability is heavily location dependent.

Amazon kindle used to do this back in the day. Then people started tethering them and then all the kindle 3's and before got limited to 50 mb/month. (Later ones just had no internet outside amazon/wikipedia iirc)

Unlimited 3G everywhere was why I bought mine. Never tethered it either, but it was limited just the same :/

Your carrier doesn't offer this already?

This. My wife's company builds devices for ag tech. This technology is enabling to reach a global market.

I didn't get that from the product page. Perhaps it should say "Simplify your logistics supply chain with a single SIM solution regardless of the final destination for your device".

Totally missed what market you were going after.

PM for Super SIM here. We're not planning on doing voice calls for the Super SIM, we want to really nail the IoT use case first.

PM for Super SIM here. We're running this as a closed beta now, hard at work getting it to GA.

Don't announce a beta unless it's available for public sign up. Or just wait until the product is GA...like a regular company. Otherwise it leads to customer disappointment and disillusionment.

Just pull VPN for programmable wireless from your site. It's clear that it won't launch within a year or two from being "announced".

> Don't announce a beta unless it's available for public sign up.

Many betas are closed. That’s not unusual.

It's not unusual but it's not a good idea. Just keep it confidential until ready, or ship a MVP and launch it as a real thing.

I just signed in to my twilio account and ordered a "sim starter pack" thinking it was this, but if this is still in closed beta, what did i order? how does super-sim differ from the programmable wireless product?

Twilio PM here. You ordered a starter pack of our IoT SIMs we launched in partnership with T-Mobile. They connect to TMO in the USA and have broad coverage globally. They don’t have access to ATT or VZW in the USA like the Super SIM.

cool, thanks for the reply

Great work, such a useful hardware and software package. A few months too late for our project, will use for next year.

I wrote this http://www.siptowebrtc.com/ that uses our SIP interfaces and PSTN to connect to our WebRTC client. I'm going to put the code up on Github after I clean it up but I'd be happy to talk through how it works. andrew at twilio dot com.