Connected Driving - Coding

Maybe one for shawnsheridan, I have every option under the sun on my F30. This includes connected drive with all the NBT functionality:



APPS

Internet

iPhone



Etc etc, for a while now our country has not had any connected drive services and BMW in our country announced yesterday that it now has the paid services for traffic, remote lock etc



Traffic $130 a year

Remote lock etc $320 a year.



Now I don't care for Remote Lock I just want the traffic (in our country its updated every minute - from the service provider they using and the TOM TOM that use the same data are actually very cool).



Here is the kicker when buying the car I remember an option for a module with a SIM card for connected drive. Mine had that on it when I bought it. BMW in my country now says Connected drive will only be available on cars July 2014 and onwards.



They talk about a "Sim module" with a dedicated SIM card thats "encrypted" with a specific service provider in our country.



How does connected drive work from a HW perspective, what ECU's and programming does it need / have I want to do some poking around to see if I at least have the HW in the car.



I know the rest is services but I might have a way around that with contacts within BMW ;)