Maybe that's why I had to give up getting an Australian prepaid SIM for a month. Tried 3 different companies, I fully paid for the card (got no eSIM phone yet),

Maybe that's why I had to give up getting an Australian prepaid SIM for a month. Tried 3 different companies, I fully paid for the card (got no eSIM phone yet), and always failed with SW errors at the verification steps. Looks like they are selling services which they locked down.