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That’s literally how it works… You can have as many eSIMs as you’d like, I currently have 8 on my phone and can choose which two I want to have active at any ti
by rosndo 5y ago
That’s literally how it works… You can have as many eSIMs as you’d like, I currently have 8 on my phone and can choose which two I want to have active at any time.
I’m not sure why nextgrid is constructing this weird technological strawman.
- Nextgrid 5y agoApologies - I was not aware you can have multiple eSIMs stored. If that's the case it lessens the impact, though switching between phones is still a problem.
- rosndo 5y agoNot any more than with regular physical SIMs, if your carrier wants to be shit they can lock a physical SIM to a specific device too.
- Nextgrid 5y agoTrue - my point was that the carrier can't prevent you from physically switching SIMs and locking them at the network-level to an IMEI would cause backlash as it would break long-established conventions. With eSIM, not only are they in control of switching eSIMs between devices but it also gives them a clean slate to introduce the aforementioned network-level restriction under excuses such as security (though again since they're in control of switching eSIMs they can just block it there or be annoying in other ways - some carriers already charge for reissuing eSIMs despite it being a completely automated process).
- rosndo 5y agoeSIMs significantly reduce the friction of switching between carriers and will inevitably force carriers to suck less. Especially in a world where people increasingly only care about data.