MNO LAN: Use same MNOs SIM card in your IoT devices like GL-MiFi

One of the big issues with IoT is somehow enabling two end nodes to communicate with each other in the presence of Network Address Translation (NAT)
Now days most ISPs (and Mobile Network Operators or MNOs) use NAT by default and assign you local IP addresses in 10.*.*.* subnet. You usually have to pay an extra fee to get static global IP addresses assigned to you - this could be a security concern.
If your end nodes run embedded linux, the following solutions can be used:

1. Use DDNS and UPnP together
   DDNS is not usually free, but the manufacturer of your embedded linux device (routers from goodlife of Vstarcam's IP camera) might provide you this service for free as it uses almost nil resources on the server side. Most ISPs have UPnP support disabled on their gateway. In a home environment, if you have your own static global IP for your home router, you can use UPnP and DDNS to your advantage. An end node will use UPnP to request your WiFi Router to open ad forward certain outward facing ports to it and then. It will then detect the global IP address of its parent's gateway (in your case, your own home router) and register it with its DDNS server. You can then use the URL assigned to the device to access it from anywhere in the world.
2. Use Virtual Private Networking
   Pay for a virtual private networking service and use OpenVPN clients on your end devices and bring them all on the same LAN
3. Use yaler.net
   Its a paid reverse SSH relay service. Works well for SSH and HTTPS connections to your device
4. Use a server with a global IP address
   Rent virtual VM from digital ocean or amazon or google and develop software for your devices to send data to or receive data from. this is what most manufacturers do for their IoT appliances.

There is a 5th option if:

1. You are working on a DIY project - handful of embedded linux devices with SSH access.
2. Your devices are located in the same geographical area (i.e. within the same telecom circle)
3. Your devices have 3G/4G modem

The trick is to stick the same network operators SIM card in all your devices. All these devices will be assigned IP addresses on the same subnet and would be able to ping each other.

The 10.*.*.* only allows around 16 million unique IP addresses and so I have reason to believe that in India, different MNO circles would be on different logical LANs

Here are the results of my tests - I used two GL-MiFi with 4G modems in them with Reliance Jio 4G SIM cards. Both the devices were located within Maharashtra (one in Pune and other in Talegaon)

I opened the outward facing ports on GL-MiFi and deactivated the firewall on them.

I then conducted iperf tests and here is what I got. It seems that we can easily transfer data between the devices at around 1-2 Mbps while on the Jio network.

Results. PDF is here.