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I worked on IoT projects for two major wireless carriers both trying to sell hardware integrated with data management. I think the idea was to sort of create value-added services on top of the dumb pipe.

Both companies invested heavily in the projects and both failed badly.

One of the major issues was just getting a dev setup using all the proprietary stuff involved. Onboarding developers was just one issue.

Both systems tied together a bunch of partners, and the folks running both shows had no technical background. Nor their managers.

Order the SIM from the console makes things pretty easy.

Twilio has consistently delivered easy ways to access cell stuff. This is def a step in the right direction. It would be awesome to tinker with this product for sensor data.




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