I just realized I forgot to add.... Ting appears to be a Sprint and/or T-mobile MVNO. This means that any device needs to be certified by Sprint and/or T-mobile for their network. Which means the hoops might still exist for Ting devices...
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) < [email protected]> wrote: > I still want everyone else's answer to this... but I'll add my $0.02: (I > guess what I'm saying is I don't want to hijack this thread....since I'm > interested in everyone's answers.) > > I've been looking at adding a product to the PacketFlux line which uses a > cellular modem to manage it. The hold up until recently has been the > arrogance of the cellular companies, especially in the US. Getting a > cellular modem module and integrating it isn't a big issue for us (I've > been playing with this for a while). Jumping through the hoops the > cellular companies require for this IS a big deal, and historically has > cost a lot of money. It is amazing how you can take a module which the > cellular companies have pre-approved on their network, but it still costs > $20K to certify a product which uses the module as it was intended to be > permitted to talk on their network. Add a SKU? Another 10K, even if it's > virtually identical hardware. > > Recently AT&T has softened their policies on this to permit pre-certified > modules on the network (supposedly) without jumping through the expensive > hoops. So, this may be happening sooner than I would have expected. I > sort of am envisioning some sort of hybrid connection to the sitemonitor > line, plus ability to control other devices via snmp or telnet. > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> For example with HSPA+/LTE modems, to have proper OOB into the routers at >> a crucial POP. >> >> $6/mo per active SIM card is pretty cheap for M2M data SIMs, though the >> $/MB rate is not the best. But for the application I have in mind it would >> be console SSH traffic, which is super low bandwidth. >> >> https://ting.com/rates >> >> For LTE they're an MVNO on AT&T and T-Mobile. >> >> Looking at the FAQ they say that the data usage can be limited and >> monitored on a per-device basis, which could be useful. >> >> >> >> > > > -- > *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* > Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 > [email protected] | http://www.packetflux.com > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> > <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> > > -- *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 [email protected] | http://www.packetflux.com <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux>
