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Legal restrictions already quashed an initiative by Apple to create its own carrier-free SIM card in 2010.

In great news for those sick of fiddling with their cellphone handsets on every trip abroad, the Netherlands has become the first country to legalize carrier-free SIM cards.

Its young engineers have grown up in a world of over-the-top services, and they can easily see the benefits of a carrier-free world, where data networks managed by the big Internet players, transport all the bits that matter.