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The industry has been working on software SIMs for some time. I had a telco talking to me about the initiative years ago. The problem is that the soft SIM prov
by cpswan 15y ago
The industry has been working on software SIMs for some time. I had a telco talking to me about the initiative years ago.
The problem is that the soft SIM provisioning process will become like DRM for phones. The users desires and the service providers desires are fundamentally misaligned here. Users want to be able to choose freely from the best tariffs available to them in a given location. Service providers want to lock people in and keep roaming expensive.
- ragmondo 15y agoBut surely this until the first carrier breaks the deadlock and then decides to offer soft SIMS to tourists ? Then the rest of then will be forced to follow on or else be squeezed out of the market. In fact, if you were a small-ish based carrier, then you could benefit from first-to-market as well as not being eaten by your customers going abroad (as you were first!).