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Its funny that in the old days the main selling point of GSM/SIM-Cards were that you could physically change from phone to phone and kept your line (and contact
by SadWebDeveloper 9y ago
Its funny that in the old days the main selling point of GSM/SIM-Cards were that you could physically change from phone to phone and kept your line (and contacts), now we the recent race to get things as little as possible and that virtually no one is using by default any of the extra-GSM functionalities has (contact backup), coming back to a non-physical identity as the solution (like in the CDMA days) that will force you to go to carrier every time you need to change yout phone and depend on 3rd party online services for the extra functionalities.
- FreakyT 9y agoCompletely agree -- the magic of SIM cards is that they allow you to quickly switch providers. I find it ridiculous that people are clamoring for eSIMS, which as you point out is not moving forward, but moving backward to the old CDMA days when you had to plead with your carrier to reconfigure your phone.
- acchow 9y agoThat is not what people want an eSIM to be like.
- rizwank 9y agoProper eSIM and eUICC implementations should allow remote flashing - there is a bootstrap IMSI and allow overloading of additional. Apple SIM (sans ATT on iPad) is an early non standard implementation. But getting carriers to support the interchange is hard. Device manufacturers would love to remove the SIM card and make eSIM proprietary to lock their phones into a walled garden - “Pay to add your IMSI to this device.” Carrier do not love. Also carriers are telcos, not tech companies. One exception : IoT. Distributed sensors that have 10 year lifespan need flexibility; and eSIM is a bigger push there. Citation : Run an MVNO that is wary of the future of eSIM.
- mmcnl 9y agoWould be even more magic if I could switch provider by simply changing a setting in the settings menu (which is technically feasible using an eSIM).