Sounds like some employees already had those for such an event, which is impressive. From the article:
> some employees started swapping out their SIM cards for Bell or Telus SIM cards that they had received back in 2015 as part of an emergency contingency plan established between the wireless carriers.
> People have been trying to build a library like this for ages—to do so, they’ve said, would be to erect one of the great humanitarian artifacts of all time—and here we’ve done the work to make it real and we were about to give it to the world and now, instead, it’s 50 or 60 petabytes on disk, and the only people who can see it are half a dozen engineers on the project who happen to have access because they’re the ones responsible for locking it up.
Could have been great but it wasn't perfect for everyone so it was scraped because surely Congress would take up this noble quest...
2. Wait
3. Update your XYZ
User: I tried the second option but nothing happened