Hi there, Matt Jackson from Twilio here. I’m the Product Manager for Super SIM, and I can try to answer these questions:
_Is this intended for consumers or corporations?_
It's for developers! We try not to look at our offerings as being strictly for consumers or corporations, but rather for the developers who use them, regardless of where they work. We want any developer with an IoT idea to be able to pursue it, whether their team is one person or one hundred. (This is a common philosophy at Twilio and was the thinking behind offering pay-as-you-go pricing on nearly all of our products.)
_Could someone clarify the use-cases?_
Super SIM is designed for cellular IoT, where we often see use cases like fleet tracking, industrial field monitoring, or micromobility. But there are a lot of use cases for cellular, with new ones showing up every day. An interesting trend we’ve seen is the use of cellular connectivity for things like point-of-sale systems in places where you normally expect there to be Wi-Fi. By using cellular connectivity, these point-of-sale platforms are able to eliminate the variability that comes with each different customer’s Wi-Fi setup, offering their customers a much better out-of-the-box experience because their customers can simply turn on the system and get connected.
_It looks like it's $100+ for 1GB of data_
Our data prices start at $0.10 per MB but this pricing is meant to just get you started. We don’t expect any of our developers to scale up their IoT business at these list prices. Once you’re up and running, you can connect with one of our IoT sales specialists to discuss volume discounts.
I imagine it's best-suited for corporations making devices that can be deployed to arbitrary countries. It looks like you're paying an enormous premium on data for the ability for this sim to "just work" internationally.
Another use case might be for tinkerers creating very low-bandwidth applications (e.g. a few megabytes/texts per month).
For anyone else I imagine it makes more sense just to buy a prepaid SIM and swap it out as-needed.
This is likely aimed at $device_manufacturer that wants to put a cellular modem into their device for remote telemetry (uploading a tiny payload every 24 hours for the lifetime on the device). There's a lot of attention in the docs towards "fleets" — they aren't expecting you to just buy one.
This is not intended for direct use by consumers. This is intended for devices that require internet connectivity, but might not have reliable access to a WiFi or wired network.
These are commonly referred to as Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
These devices typically use a very small amount of bandwidth (relative to a mobile phone user) but need the reliability of being able to roam across multiple networks. Hence the relatively steep $100/GB.
