Gus over at Lifehacker brings us word that analyst firm Telsyte is predicting Australia will have over 35 million active SIM cards by 2015. It’s a good time to hold shares in a mobile telco, apparently. More »
Up and coming mobile operator AmaySIM knows that Australians love their cap plans, so has added to its pay-as-you-go offerings with a $40 a month cap plan that looks pretty tough to beat. More »
Oh yeah, there’s a new iPad on sale today. Which means that purchasers of the new 3G model will probably also need a MicroSIM to get their data fix wherever they go. Let’s take a look at the current state of the MicroSIM market. More »
Making phone calls and browsing the web on your mobile while overseas is like bending over and letting mobile carriers rape you through your wallet. But if you’re travelling to the US or the UK, there’s now a company that allows you to avoid the inevitable lubing up of your credit card before you travel. More »
Gemalto, with Facebook’s help, just made a text-based, on-SIM implementation of basic Facebook functions. The software lets dumbphones do simple Facebook tasks like changing status or posting on walls. Good for developing countries, weird for everywhere else. [The Register]
Given the almost ubiquitous nature of 3G in Australian cities, yet the general lack of 3G SIM cards in most of today’s laptops, the idea of a pocket-sized WiFi router makes a lot of sense. DLink seem to think so, as they’ve just released the DIR-457U pocket 3G Wi-Fi router. More »
