Pay-as-you-go means that only the actual data consumption of the active M2M SIM cards is billed.
One of our billing models is pay-as-you-go. This means that our customers only pay for the actual monthly data consumption of their M2M SIM card. With this billing model, no data package or similar has to be booked in advance for the SIM cards. With pay-as-you-go, billing takes place in fair 1 KB increments, so there is no rounding up to 1 MB. You really only pay for the data that your M2M SIM has used.
In addition to pay-as-you-go, wherever SIM also offers other data tariffs, such as the data pool. This means that there is a suitable data tariff for every company project and plan.
Whether a fixed data package, pay-as-you-go or rather a data pool suits a project depends entirely on the project and the expected data consumption of your M2M SIMs.
A data pool is a shared data quota for all active M2M SIM cards. If one SIM consumes less and another consumes more, this consumption is offset against each other. In this way, individual outliers that would otherwise have caused additional costs can be offset by the lower consumption of other M2M SIM cards. Data pooling always makes sense if the total consumption of all SIM cards used is similar, but the consumption of individual SIM cards fluctuates greatly. So you know that you will use around 100 MB per month across all 20 M2M SIMs, but you don't know which of your SIMs will use 30 MB and which will only use 5 MB this month.Pay-as-you-go usually makes sense if you don't know how much data the end device will use, but it will be less overall. This can be the case with SIM cards in alarm systems, for example, which only transmit data when they are in use. Above a certain regular minimum consumption, it makes more sense to book a monthly data package.
