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It sounds like the plan here is to let people download sims instead of having to physically pop a chip into the device. How is this anticompetitive?
by woah 11y ago
It sounds like the plan here is to let people download sims instead of having to physically pop a chip into the device. How is this anticompetitive?
- fulafel 11y agoThe basis of SIM security is traditionally that nobody can read out its secret keys, you can only ask the SIM to sign something with its secret keys and tell you the result. So sounds like this might be not about "writable" e-SIM tech, but convincing operators to give up the previously closely-guarded keys or support some new kind of keying system?
- x5n1 11y agoIt may not be to begin with to get market adoption, once they have it, they can limit or tax any network to be able to operate on their device, so the FCC needs to step in and make sure that never happens.
- lucaspiller 11y agoI don't think it will make things any worse (it's not really in the interest of hardware manufacturers to lock devices down), but I assume when you can buy a phone from AT&T with one of these it'll still be locked to "AT&T and roaming partners" by default. There's also the question of what happens when the device breaks, currently you can just take out the SIM and put it in a new device. With this I imagine you'll have to pay the carrier a "transfer fee".