Apply HN: SimShark 2.0 pays you cash for sharing your SIM card

Posted by vinogradov on Thursday April 07, 2016 @05:06AM
from the self-post dept.

SimShark campaign

Worldwide mobile phones grow and grow last years. 70% of mobile customers using pay-as-you-go (expensive) and 30% using monthly subscription contract with included free minutes inside a network. But 80% added minutes burned when month finished.

Why we can't sell rest minutes to pay-as-you-go customers and get charges back? The purchased package is your ownership, which u can't sell to other people.

How we can do impossible things

SimShark is a solution to do it. But how we can do it without interrupt ur current service? Let's describe. Now you are using current model: SIM card inside phone and phone connected to ur mobile operator's network:

http://www.simshark.net

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Re:Apply HN: SimShark 2.0 pays you cash for sharing your SIM... by ingenieros on Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:35PM (#11449038)

Are you aware that this is already being done throughout the developing world? Ecuador, Colombia, Perú, Mexico, Costa Rica and many other places I visit already have some variation of this. There's no website or app per se, but you'll see peeps in the streets selling you their "minutos" for very reasonable rates.

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Re:Apply HN: SimShark 2.0 pays you cash for sharing your SIM... by buss on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:23PM (#11450374)

Interesting idea, but your description on kickstarter makes it seem like you have some big security problems. How will you ensure privacy?

How will you build a network of users?

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Re:Apply HN: SimShark 2.0 pays you cash for sharing your SIM... by tiplus on Thursday April 07, 2016 @08:19AM (#11446631)

Sounds interesting! Do you think my carrier would lock my card for violation of service? I am not sure if reselling minutes/data is allowed with standard SIM contracts.

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Re:Apply HN: SimShark 2.0 pays you cash for sharing your SIM... by kumarski on Saturday April 09, 2016 @03:08PM (#11462769)

If you talk to many MVNOs a few offer segmented plans like these for developing countries.

Look at Bharti Airtel in India and Wataniya in the middle east.

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