mobile proxies from sims. how does it work economically?

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I'm from Canada and i think the phone plans here are super expensive. i think price per GB is pretty good. but only if you spend atleast 40 a month. but thats only with 1 sim card. i'm planning to start a phone farm and just want to know what the meta is.,

one plan i found is around 50 a month for 250gb of 5g data. do people with phone farms get something like that and rotate phone each phone concurrently? or do they literally give each separate phone their own sim with data already in it?
 
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bigvision said:
or do they literally give each separate phone their own sim with data already in it?
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This, each phone with its own sim, you need to think quality brother
 
There's many avenues. You can get sim cards with a certain data limit (50gb) and limit the proxy user to make sure they don't reach that limit. Some sneaky proxy providers who provide LOTS of proxies, could create a new MVNO which allows them to get them cheaply and legally.
Sellers also quite oftentimes share the proxies.

Been down that route, margins could be quite low depending on where you are and what is available, but I think it works out in the end if you set it up correctly and are honest with your clients.
 
One SIM per device is the standard setup, and it's not really optional: a SIM can only be registered on the network in one device at a time, so there's no way to share a plan across phones running concurrently. Data-wise, 250 GB for $50 is decent. We're from germany so we're not sure how it works in Canada, but shouldn't be there unlimited plans? If so, make sure to read the TOS since they usually have a "Fair-use" policy.
 
each phone should have its own mobile connection if you want separate proxy lines/ the phone or modem works as a gateway, and traffic goes through its SIM and mobile network. if one phone shares internet to all others, they will use the same gateway and public ip. so ussually every phones needs its own SIM or eSIM with data
 
depends on what you plan to do with your phone farm if its for social media then 1 sim doesnt mean 1 account u can reset it and use it for multiple accounts but probably should have 1 sim per phone. there are some plans in the us that are "unlimited" for the first 50 gb then slow speed after for around 30-50 a month. so i think it just comes down to can you make more then 50 per sim a month or 250 gig worth of data.
 
Separate SIM in every phone, yeah. One plan shared over hotspot means every phone goes out on the same IP, so it's kind of pointless for proxies. People rotate by toggling airplane mode on each phone and the carrier gives a new IP. On that 50 for 250gb plan, check if tethering is even allowed and what happens after the cap. A lot of carriers throttle or just cut the line when they see that much traffic going through one sim. So the math is really per line, 50 a month times however many phones, plus the phones themselves. Full disclosure, we run a mobile pool at DataImpulse.
 
Only way to do is to use separate sim cards on each phone otherwise the purpose of multiple phone with same sim is no one because they will be linked by using same sim ...... you can do hotspot also between phones but this don't help you run multiple accounts on each phones as leaves to many footprints sharing same network
 
One thing to test before buying 10 plans: how many unique IPs you actually get when you toggle airplane mode. Some carriers cycle you through a pretty small pool behind CGNAT, so your "rotation" keeps landing on the same handful of IPs. Also run one SIM in a modem 24/7 for a couple of weeks before scaling, fair-use flags usually show up after a while, not on day one.
 
StealthLink said:
One SIM per device is the standard setup, and it's not really optional: a SIM can only be registered on the network in one device at a time, so there's no way to share a plan across phones running concurrently. Data-wise, 250 GB for $50 is decent. We're from germany so we're not sure how it works in Canada, but shouldn't be there unlimited plans? If so, make sure to read the TOS since they usually have a "Fair-use" policy.
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I run my own Canadian proxies, and yeah, the operator terms there are pretty restrictive. From what I ve seen, you probably won't find much better than 250gb for 50dollars. As far as i know, there aren't really unlim plans available in Canada.
 
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