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So you depend on the company's goodwill. Has this ever worked when it comes to monopolized industries?

• lxgr 4y ago
  As others have mentioned, companies can (and some but not all do!) tie physical SIMs to a given IMEI just as well, so it‘s less a question of goodwill and more one of competition, consumer education and choice etc.
  • ajsnigrutin 4y ago
    I think this (tieing phones to sims and vice versa) is forbidden in EU.
    • Nextgrid 4y ago
      It's less about what's technically forbidden and more about what's actually enforced. If the carrier forces you to spend an hour on hold to talk to a customer support agent to reissue an eSIM provisioning code, would that be considered tying? Probably not, yet it's still very effective at discouraging people from switching phones.