what is the cost of the ibasis card ?

[titof49]

Hi,

After using the ibasis data available on the sim card:

- what is the cost per MB of data consumed on the ibasis provider, please ?

- After using the data available on the sim card, does the sim card disable automatically ?

- Do the process is a prepaid credit or a postpaid sim card ?

- If i add my credit card on the ibasis site:

does it generate a bill every month ?

or

must iadd data on the sim card to be able to use it ?

Already thanks for your responses.

Br,

Christophe.

[bjorn-spockeli]

Hi Christophe,

 

- what is the cost per MB of data consumed on the ibasis provider, please ?

 You pay a fixed amount for a given amount of data, e.g. 10 euros for 20MB.

- After using the data available on the sim card, does the sim card disable automatically ?

Do no think its de-activated, it will just be displayed that all the available data has been used up. 

- Do the process is a prepaid credit or a postpaid sim card ?

Pre-paid.   You pay a fixed amount for a given amount of data.

- If i add my credit card on the ibasis site:

does it generate a bill every month ?

or

must iadd data on the sim card to be able to use it ?

The latter, you need to buy data first in order to send data.

[titof49]

So can you confirm that if there is no more data, then the thingy will not be able to send data until I buy data.

What happen if the thingy continue to try to send data ? 

- no data send.

- data send to the apn and you must pay with extra cost ? (Feeling as this in the ibasis condition)

Just to be to not explode cost during data send test ...

[titof49]

Yes please,can you ask it to the ibasis team ?

I think the response will be useful for everyboby who want use the thingy91 .

[bjorn-spockeli]

I sent a PM to the iBasis Tech Support user here on Devzone(  https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/members/ibasis-tech-support). Will update when they reply, but also asked the IBasis Tech.support user to reply directly in this thread. 

Best regards

Bjørn

[titof49]

Hi bjorn,

Did you have news about this point, please ?

[bjorn-spockeli]

iBasis stated that there are no additional costs with using the iBasis SIM after a top up and all the purchased data is used up.  

[titof49]

And what is the behaviour of the thingy 91 (sim card and network) connection, when all the purchased data is used up ? for example on site (forest for example) , if the system try to send data, please ?

The goal is that if the system cannot receive remote command and continue to send information to the apn,  I think ibasis will not be happy to have connection try or packet received on the apn.

[bjorn-spockeli]

iBasis did not elaborate on that as I only asked regarding additional costs. Have send a new question to iBasis. 

When there is no data left on the SIM that comes with the DK you will get the -111 error code when attempting to connect to the nRF Cloud, if theres actual packets arriving at the APN or not, I do not know. 

[titof49]

Ok for the credit already present that come with the dk, i agree with you.

The question was after registering the informations to ibasis.

[bjorn-spockeli]

There are no additional costs after a top up, this has been confirmed by iBasis. However, wheter the nRF91 can send packets to the APN when the top up data has been used up, I do not know, but I have asked iBasis to clarify. 

[titof49]

Ok, thanks  i ll wait about your response , sorry to insist but I already had this case in a company using monitoring equipment sending data on network for some telecom (mobile)  operator on their own networ. we configured transmission in gprs mode and they wasn't happy that we switch from SMS data transfer to gprs data transfer because even if the end user was a mobile operator, it generated gprs extra data volume and extra cost between different operator.

they asked us to come back in sms mode to transmit our data from equipment site and remove gprs transmission.