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Hello there,

Just wondering whether anyone can recommend a particular carrier/option/choice for a SIM card to use in IoT hardware?

UK networks only please!

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[–] SteveTech 7 points 1 week ago

Idk about the UK, but in Australia if you're only sending a small amount of data, some carriers offer IoT plans starting at ~$1/month. So maybe some carriers do the same in the UK?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think some more information would be nice.

Is the device supposed to send or receive?

Data or simple messaging?

What kind of traffic do you expect? Streaming video or a few status messages a day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fair point — data only, probably around 200mb a month? Planning to run a simple web server, nothing too heavy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can't expose ports on mobile data. You can ether host the web server at home or on a vps or use something like tailscale.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about Cloudflare? You can tunnel to them instead of Tailscale's limited public serve

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not really a fan of cloudflare tunnels, but I guess thats an option too