Getting A Virtual SIM Card For The First Time? Read To Learn Some Basic

by Pixwireless Prepaid Owner

Lately, some world-class engineers who’ve been continuously working to better the legacy of cellular technologies, were afflicted with a thought, and it is that: why’d one want a SIM card, if it is nothing greater than a computing unit and protected data storage? These kinds of data ampules could be stored in internal memory of the receiver (mobile phone), thus no one would ever require generating, seeing or replacing the SIM cards, eventually making all the data an outmoded and legacy component.

To make this idea a reality, the engineers would end up with programmed phones that were quite a thing back during the times of CDMA-800 and DAMPS networks. One key benefit of the GSM standard is its ‘disconnected’ nature. Only one thing that needed to be done to make the handset customized for you was insert the SIM card, so you wouldn’t have to look anywhere else, and yet get your handset programmed.

However, this method was easy when an average user had mere a single SIM card. Most of today’s users use dual or even triple SIM mobile handsets, USB modems and even tablets too. Some prefer using multiple SIM cards just for the Internet connectivity, since carriers have wobbly coverage – needless to say the roaming, which actually will require a different level of discussion.

What a traveler would do as soon as they fly across their domestic border – of course, the only thing that tops the list is getting a local carrier’s SIM card to use the internet. Why not use domestic carrier’s data plan while flying overseas? This’ because it ends up exhaustively expensive for one! The very concept of roaming is to save the phone number for the internet connectivity, and therefore people buy local SIM cards.

It’s as well not very easy: people need to understand the rates and terms of the data plans available right at the moment, plus plans and uses are mostly written in regional language. Besides, one has to find the right SIM card store, make them understand their specific needs and then unceasingly pay for the subscription.

It is no problem if you’re living in a country where smartphone retailers’ booths are just everywhere – such as China or Russia, however in other nations, your experience might have been different. More often, the local SIM card buying process is complicated, both for the carriers and subscribers, especially when the user barely spends a couple of weeks making the most of the new SIM card.

These are the reasons why Virtual SIM cards have been brought to the surface, to start with. The concept is very simple: there’s a secured section within the internal memory of every mobile phone, just as in any ordinary SIM Card. But, all data are downloaded through radio channel, which includes identifiers, saved in the carrier side’s database, i.e. the mobile phone.

Let’s just put it this way: With a virtual SIM card, you receive its contents digitally. It is similar to the way you have been downloading music from your iTunes rather than purchasing a disc from a store.

From the technology viewpoint, the implementation is simple too. In order to deter any sort of confusion, your SIM card stays in its very place. However, it’s just the dummy that has no data and a part of its memory could be redrafted.

This very facility is available in the latest iPads: One could purchase an Apple SIM dummy and draft any data of the carrier onto it. For U.S. citizens, there’s availability of local data plans too, and for other regions and states, there’s an availability of ‘tourist SIM card.’

Here’s a more convincing edge: Pix Wireless offers cloud service for Virtual SIM Card management that’s completely relied upon the GSMA-approved remote SIM provisioning specifications. This is used by both aggregators and carriers, including travel agencies, OEMs and the like. A virtual SIM card, irrespective of the geographical differences, will be accessible on a mobile application, while the SIM card dummy is traded off in ordinary retail stores.

The data cost, again, depends on the usage of the carrier, which wasn’t the case to date. Pix Wireless makes every international telecommunication service as easy as never before for its clients.