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Until they actually ship and make it GA, I reserve the right to call this vapor ware like the rest of the Twilio announcements in the past year. When is VPN for programmable wireless going to ship? Never?

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PM for Super SIM here. We're running this as a closed beta now, hard at work getting it to GA.

Don't announce a beta unless it's available for public sign up. Or just wait until the product is GA...like a regular company. Otherwise it leads to customer disappointment and disillusionment.

Just pull VPN for programmable wireless from your site. It's clear that it won't launch within a year or two from being "announced".

> Don't announce a beta unless it's available for public sign up.

Many betas are closed. That’s not unusual.

It's not unusual but it's not a good idea. Just keep it confidential until ready, or ship a MVP and launch it as a real thing.

I just signed in to my twilio account and ordered a "sim starter pack" thinking it was this, but if this is still in closed beta, what did i order? how does super-sim differ from the programmable wireless product?

Twilio PM here. You ordered a starter pack of our IoT SIMs we launched in partnership with T-Mobile. They connect to TMO in the USA and have broad coverage globally. They don’t have access to ATT or VZW in the USA like the Super SIM.

cool, thanks for the reply

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