well In large parts of Europe (ie EU +EEA) roaming (at least for trips <3 months) local sim cards (unless you need to receive calls from the country in question and don't want the caller to pay international rates) are no longer needed because of Ru rules allowing evryone traveling to use ther phones abroad without additional charge (limited to 27GB /mounth (some other rules apply) to avoid people permanently roaming to get cheap data deals from low cos countries)
It’s really really easy to buy eSIM’s when travelling - I travel across the world and live on two continents.
Not only that but it's volume that has limited flexibility ( due to the need to be extratnaly accessible), i suspect it us rather easier to integrate an E-sim module as it onlu needs power and a few other traces fot some data I/O infact baring any limitations ser by regs rhey might even be abke to integrate it in the soc or 4G/5G modem
I rather do not deal with carriers. Its so easy to switch the cards and I can assure you there will be fees, restrictions and other regular BS from them.
well that bs is whst regulations are for .... oh US carriers in the US never mind that game was sadly list a long time ago, which us strange because sadly regulations ( to some extent at keast) is what a marcket needs to function properly
With eSim
Apple will remove those too. Everyone will have to use AirPods/TWS ear(head)phones via Bluetooth.
I have yes. People talked funny and I couldn't understand them, but the food was great.
The major downside is that it needs active internet connection to program the eSIM, as the information is downloaded from the Internet.
Hmm i'm nit an exoert but I susoect thst cariers ( subject to regulations ofc) can route any number to any sim, ei you can lrobably chang number without changing your sim, in fact the only reason I can see orneeding to change a sim outside of sim faliure is a mno/vnmo change ( apoart ftom internal careier poletics) the sim realy onlu authenticates you yo the network an says bill subscriber number x fir services used from this terminal. That tge nerwork than sugnals so that calls to tel nr arives at that phone is not realy that relevant ( in fact it's justbanother service provided with certain parameters, qos etc). The awful sim locked phones ( that tankfully are now ilegal at least in the EU
My next trip will be to Brasil where that is not an option. I will need to get a local SIM card.
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