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A friend of mine went through this same scenario while abroad. In his case he actually did have the eSIM on a contract attached to his name, but the issue is th
by Nextgrid 2y ago
A friend of mine went through this same scenario while abroad. In his case he actually did have the eSIM on a contract attached to his name, but the issue is that he couldn't get it reissued from abroad for security reasons and/or activating it from abroad wasn't possible (if he could get a Wi-Fi network VPN'd back to the UK it would've probably worked). It was a nightmare to sort out, and I believe he had to ultimately arrange a physical SIM getting delivered to a friend in his home country who then forwarded it to him.
> eSIM seems like it was designed by someone from the US
eSIM was designed by committee to allow carriers more control over switching and/or moving SIMs. Carriers see the ability to easily move a physical SIM outside of their control as a problem. eSIM is the solution, putting them back into the loop and ensuring they can do obnoxious things like charge fees on issuing a (one-time-use!) eSIM QR code (the fee made sense back then as it involved delivery of a physical SIM, but now it's just pure racket).
- maxsilver 2y ago> Carriers see the ability to easily move a physical SIM outside of their control as a problem Every carrier has already had the ability to block moving physical SIMS too, for many decades now. (AT&T in the US literally did used to block physical SIM swaps, for ages) eSIMs don't actually give carriers any more-or-less control over SIM movement than they already had before.
- Nextgrid 2y agoMaybe this was common in the US, but absolutely unheard of in Europe. eSIMs allow them to sneak in that control as part of the move to eSIMs and get consumers to accept it, even though technically they already had this control previously.
- pests 2y agoOn Verion I get a text if any device on my plan has its sim changed. They can easily block them if they wanted to.