Big Three M2M Solutions

In the light of a recently published post describing the concept of controlling the flow of a large number of SIM cards, the question arose - why is this necessary if there are m2m portals.
I would like to briefly go through the m2m solutions available on the market.

At the moment, MTS and Beeline have the most complete solutions, Megafon is working on the solution and promises to release it by the end of the year.

Mts

The solution exists a little more than a year; it was developed on its own by the TK of Russian customers.
The start page looks like this

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• SIM cards - summary information page for all SIM with parameters
• limits - work with limit rules
• notifications - event log (triggered limits and locks)
• reports - expense report templates, single and group
• users - establishment of system users and distribution of access rights
• settings - the ability to create custom fields (properties for sim cards)

This is what the control section of a specific SIM card looks like.

Of the benefits:

• ability to manage four types of traffic: data transfer, voice, csd, sms
• separate installation of limit rules for each type of traffic
• blocking only the channel on which the limit is exceeded
• API availability
• the possibility of placing on the portal the existing numbering capacity

Of disadvantages

• does not control data transfer on private apn
• you cannot manage regional contracts from a single window (separate credentials)
• inconvenient event reports
• untouched interface

Beeline

Jasper Wireless solution used, evolving for several years
A detailed description of the system was here .

Of the benefits

• an order of magnitude more control over a specific sim than the MTS
• separate installation of limit rules for each type of traffic
• API availability

Of disadvantages

• inability to connect existing numbering capacity
• numbers only in code 968 and 089
• difficulty in setting limit rules
• the solution is not adapted to Russian realities (voice and csd are not controlled)
• very long process of completion

Megaphone

Until the last moment, for some reason, I was not puzzled by the development of this direction.
It currently has the ability to implement blocking, unlocking and status requests for SIM cards via https requests with parameters in the form of a SIM card and command id.

Objectively assessing the available solutions, the solutions from MTS are the closest to our realities, since It was originally developed to meet the needs of our users, but this is just my opinion.

It should be noted that in a small volume of m2m of services in our market there are such operators as Vodafone, Orange and Telenor, but using their services with their own SIM cards will be beneficial only to those companies whose SIM cards spend a lot of time abroad - for example international logistics.
Each solution has its own advantages and disadvantages, and most companies with a not very large SIM card contract are fine, but implementation gaps make you think about alternative ways to control accounts by this in addition to this, especially since each operator has them.