[Ovmsdev] Hologram

[Mark Webb-Johnson]

To follow up on this, I tried ordering from Mouser, but the order has been stuck in ‘export review’ for a week now with no movement. Still no reply from Hologram themselves.

I can only guess that something has recently changed regarding SIM card export from USA. I know Hong Kong introduced a real name registration for local SIM cards - but both international roaming SIM cards and data-only IOT SIM cards were explicitly excluded from that requirement.

Anyway, I give up. I know I could gray-market import these (thanks for the offers), but it is just too much hassle and we all have more important things to do. I have updated the documentation to reflect that Hologram SIMs are no longer included, but can be purchased directly from Hologram or its distributors, if required.

Regards, Mark.

> On 21 Nov 2023, at 8:23 AM, Phil Hochstetler <phil.hochstetler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Mouser does seem to have a large quantity in stock.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 3:57 PM Mark Webb-Johnson <mark at webb-johnson.net <mailto:mark at webb-johnson.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m having a weird issue with Hologram. For years we’ve been buying SIMs from them and including with every OVMS device shipped. No issues, no complaints, and all smooth sailing.
>> 
>> Now, a month or so ago I tried to buy a new batch of SIMs, the Hologram shop no longer offers shipping to Hong Kong. I wrote to them using their website contact feature, but no reply. I wrote to their sales contact, but no reply. I wrote to all my contacts there, but no reply. I wrote using both my open vehicles email address and gmail, but no reply. Ghosted.
>> 
>> No idea if they are restructuring, or something broken with their email contact system, but it is very frustrating.
>> 
>> Anyway, it now looks like the upcoming batch of OVMS won’t be able to include Hologram SIMs as standard. An inconvenience for our users, but not much I can do about it.
>> 
>> If anyone has any contacts there, or any way of contacting them, perhaps you would try and ask. I’ve given up. There are plenty of alternatives, but perhaps that given that only a fraction of our users actually use the included Hologram SIM, it is time to stop including it.
>> 
>> Regards, Mark.
>> 
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