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U.S. cell phone carriers have long required SIM cards to let you use devices on their networks. Now, the traditional plastic SIM cards are being phased out in favor of embedded versions called eSIMs. The change could make switching carriers easier, and open up new possibilities for how phones are designed. WSJ personal tech reporter Dalvin Brown joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss the change and why it’s taken so long for eSIMs to be embraced in the U.S.
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@feiwong70 Год назад

No real users complained about popping in/out traditional SIM cards. Unless you’re a frequent international traveler and have a need to swap SIM cards often. Still, I haven’t touched SIM card slot since swapping new phone. That’s 3 years now. This change is not about what users ask.

@dollydiddums7889 Год назад

It's all lies ... It's about control .... Just when you thought it couldn't get worse 😉

@dianegreen1937 Год назад

@dollydiddums7889 What's being controlled, why.

@jamesjones9207 3 месяца назад

@@dianegreen1937no longer can you remove your SIM card and and disconnect yourself from the global positioning system, a.k.a., GPS

@dianegreen1937 3 месяца назад

@@jamesjones9207 Thx.

@ChumpVice Год назад

The heck? This is regressing back to CDMA and GSM phones. With SIM cards, you can swap unlocked phones without your carrier even knowing. Why open yourself up to getting charged by them to switch providers? Why surrender a dual-sim phone for work or international travel? Popping a nano-SIM card in once is no problem at all, and empowers the consumer with more flexibility.

@jasonjames4254 Год назад

Exactly! You can easily swap unlocked phones with a SIM. Something that hurts their business model. That's the real reason why they want to switch to eSims.

@mryoung19ify Год назад

You're totally correct. There's not a problem with popping a SIM card. It's simple. They are trying to make it sound like it's hard. With a GSM It's easy to switch a phone. Now you going to have to call or go online with the carriers to give them your information. I would think that it's going to make it hard for you to switch from a iPhone to Android. Always trying to lock you into their ecosystem

@craigrn16 Год назад

Exactly! I buy nothing but unlocked phones. This just makes things more inconvenient for me

@sadcel Год назад

Hey, what is an unlocked phone?

@Saiputera Год назад

Tech companies want more control SMH

@Lili-xq9sn Год назад

Like putting in/ trading out a SIM card is hard. Sounds like another way to give big corporations more control and spying opportunities.

@edenassos Год назад

Are you a criminal? Why are you so scared of the government "spying" on you?

@youtubeuser206 Год назад

Exactly right It’s just to harvest data and prevent people from losing the trail

@yeshwanthvarre Год назад

It's not just about it. Imagine you having to integrate a Sim into a smart watch. It being much smaller in the size, it can eat up a lot of space. Having an embedded Sim is much better and efficient.

@youtubeuser206 Год назад

@@yeshwanthvarre cdma networks didn’t use sim cards over a decade ago already

@fatcrruise6508 Год назад

dont use mobile phone if you dont want corporations to spy on you

@zxcytdfxy256 Год назад

This is terrible, this just gives carrier companies the ability to lock you for ever.

@Saiputera Год назад

Exactly

@Saiputera Год назад

@@naturelover2292 this is some kind of CCP tactic

@aqrocksnyc1640 Год назад

Exactly there is a carrier I use now in the US and they charge me $20 for switching phones on eSIM. This is going to cause major issues with Carriers and locked phones. Also overseas everyone does not use esim. Esim is a good idea but only if you keep the physical SIM card tray as an option.

@hugo112max Год назад

I have an esim but I don't like it. Swapping to another phone costs money, and on my 13 pro max dual sim actually drains much more battery.

@MatejaMaric Год назад

That’s the fault of your carrier charging you for re-issuing a QR code, not the fault of the eSIM technology. Also, if you keep the original QR code they gave you you can just scan it again on your new phone. Additionally, iOS and Android have methods to wirelessly transfer the eSIM data to a new phone, no carrier interaction required. Having dual SIMs will always drain more battery than having a single SIM, regardless of whether they are two physical SIMs, one physical one eSIM, or two eSIMs. Which makes sense, because the phone now has to maintain two cellular connections instead of only one.

@livingaboard Год назад

That isn't an esim issue. That's the issue of using 2 sims at once.

@techsucks Год назад

So no cons listed for the consumer, who is the primary listener of this channel. I like how he downplayed the esims security issue

@cryptonative Год назад

what security risk?

@raduarmadamusic Год назад

If finding a sim tray pin is hard, try to change your esim to another phone.

@cryptonative Год назад

@@lightspeedbriefs This is not exactly true. Both eSIMs and conventional SIMs store a key on the device and another one on the carriers systems that are combined to identify the phone number.

@SoCalFreelance Год назад

Don't forget the obligatorily Apple product promotion.

@whitneyfjohnson Год назад

Hmm I'm speckle about having esim they can get hacked as well as regular sim card

@JeffreyHamlin Год назад

The ultimate security is the ability to unplug the SIM card and battery.

@Casyfill Год назад

Except now you might wonder if some “malicious” code can copy your SIM card id into esim (or “backdoor” a esim without your knowledge

@kitkinder6439 Год назад

You can erase an eSIM in literally a SECOND. Quick than you can eject a SIM card so this argument is invalid.

@Casyfill Год назад

@@kitkinder6439 I am sure brilliant minds thought about it and did their best. And I don’t know nothing about this particular technology. But until proven wrong I can’t be sure there is no theoretical possibility to “keep it working”. Same way any other security flaw is hidden until uncovered.

@insoft_uk Год назад

@@Casyfill eSIM will be far more secure than the old SIM as it’s technology is many decades old, Nokia wanted to redesign a new sim they didn’t fancy the eSIM direction tho Apple preferred the nano direction to maintain compatibility if providers were not on board with Apple’s main plan that was eSIM tho today providers are slowing coming around tho still reluctant why providers don’t push eSIM despite most all phones today support it. Tho with NET Zero and a push for reducing plastic waste it’s going to force them soon to start pushing it regardless how they feel about it while in the meantime they will no doubt be tweaking the eSIM standard to benefit them making it difficult for the end user to switch providers than what Apple has in mind.

@Ausf Год назад

Shh, you don't want that. You don't want to easily switch phones or batteries either. You want to have phones that are 1mm thinner.

@miladmzz Год назад

Imagine you travel to a country where they have not implemented the e-sim tech yet, then you're stuck with your dumb phone

@D-Rockk Год назад

E-sims help phones be "Smaller and more innovative" More innovative in what way???? ?

@Lili-xq9sn Год назад

In spying and tapping you with the same phone and service.

@D-Rockk Год назад

I don't want an E-sim. It is so rare to take out a sim, and honestly if you are careful it shouldn't be a problem.

@craigjohnson2503 Год назад

You can't refuse new technology. You'll have to trade out your old phone for the new tech. Major FOMO

@ZY-cr7yg Год назад

How about a larger battery coming with the removal of SIM card slots

@D-Rockk Год назад

@@ZY-cr7yg just make the phone 1-5 mm thicker, I use a phone case anyway, I don't care about a few millimeters of thickness

@swedishem5336 Год назад

@@ZY-cr7yg They most likely will either next year or the year after, they have a spot for extra room without the sim tray, but can't add anything because of the lack of eSIM in Europe compared to the US. And from past experiences with I think Samsung, making one product in one region better than another is not good and they will get backlash.

@steinarjonsson_ Год назад

Basically, with eSIM you can't go off-grid. The SIM card is a standalone computer that can continue to communicate with cell towers even though your phone is switched off. And now with eSIM, you can't remove it. If someone is tracking you, you need to throw away the phone.

@fatcrruise6508 Год назад

hmm.. that is not true. But fact is Mobile phone has ID called IMEI. that is also can be used to track you, even you change your sim card. The simplest way is to use random IMEI generator with physical sim card.

@bernardtan1 Год назад

@@fatcrruise6508 Where do you purchase a random IMEI generator ?

@ludo_ Год назад

How much is the bounty on your head?

@tomallen6073 Год назад

The carriers are doing it to serve themselves, not the consumer.

@DaFalconator Год назад

I personally like sim cards more than esims because of being able to change them out

@xmalcom650 Год назад

No thanks. Swapping from one esim to the other involves my providers approval.

@alexn2162 Год назад

Gives even more monopoly power to the big 3 carriers. We need to enforce antitrust against big tech. Phones haven’t gotten any smaller despite removing SD cards, headphone jacks and now SIMs.

@Mexicano1768 Год назад

how does it?

@Chicago48 Год назад

I'm shopping for a phone and you're right there are 4 major carriers and 4 major phone company makers. My shopping for a phone is limited.

@bign1667 Год назад

Theorfore the ability to block phones making them useless at a switch of a hat. I'm sticking to phones that accept dual sim

@luxmunk Год назад

You mean like how they shut down bank accounts and insurance policies for activists and protesters or anyone they don’t like.

@bign1667 Год назад

@@luxmunk yep just like how police and dealerships can remotely track and shutdown vehicles over in America and some other countries. The idea of selling reliable products that will last benefiting business and consumers went out the window when smart phones was introduced by Apple and Google.

@utuberme1 Год назад

Esims makes the state very easy to track you.

@MobbJusticeTV Год назад

Probably a great idea in theory. But I wouldn't imagine it being very practical, particularly in emerging market countries. It's nice to have all this online and digital switching capability in the first world but imagine moving around a number of developing countries and trying to switch carriers digitally. It's unlikely that the infrastructure will even be in place for all that.

@yt1536 Год назад

Presumably, it would be difficult where the mobile network is analogue.

@MatejaMaric Год назад

Actually, it might be easier, since you can have essentially an unlimited number of eSIMs stored on you phone at a any time, so when you travel to a different country switching numbers/carriers is as easy as hopping into Settings and flicking a toggle.

@devon9374 Год назад

@@MatejaMaric should be the case pretty soon. The question is how long will it take to reach that point

@AA-kj4ic Год назад

a phone can store many esims, and only activate the one you use.

@webpresent 11 месяцев назад

This the best thing for emrging market like african countries because no anymore SIM swap fraud second good for saving when you need to have 2 mobiles carriers on one phone.

@saintkamei Год назад

User eSIMs on my Pixel. It's easy and convenient but it's a struggle migrating devices.

@ArnavSingh-im5bj Год назад

I don't want phone companies to have more control

@spacetoast7783 Год назад

How does this give them more control?

@rummimg Год назад

It doesn't. sim or esim won't make much difference for carriers to control your data.

@AkshayPallikkara Год назад

Don’t buy a phone .

@mluu510 Год назад

If you that paranoid, don't use a phone 🤷

@worldcitizeng6507 Год назад

I'll train my new pegion🕊

@somewhereoverit711 Год назад

i have both my eSIM and SIM active. Not all phones can do dual eSIMs simultaneously yet so that's why a handful of people are hesitant on using just eSIMs.

@MarioRafaelM Год назад

The issue with E Sims is privacy with a physical Sim card provides security remember Pegasus that would be done without you even noticing and with E Sim I can hack your information easily.

@mluu510 Год назад

Barely. Your device is still trackable with IMEI

@edenassos Год назад

You sound like you know nothing about how technology works. What do you do for a living?

@fatcrruise6508 Год назад

Thats nothing to do with privacy. A mobile phone non smartphone is still trackable dude. You just not consent about it

@Dfgbuiiyyyybb Год назад

A lot of phones will have both a physical an slot and support esim. So you can have 2 lines. So for example you can use the esim for your regular line and a physical sim in the same phone for a travel line if you need to purchase a sim while you’re traveling.

@luxmunk Год назад

Exactly the way they’ve been doing it for years now. So why is it suddenly a story? It’s not because they’re adding something it’s because they’re taking away the one thing that ties your ownership to advice. Now you have no physical proof that something belongs to you.

@swedishem5336 Год назад

And you can have up to 10 eSIMs added

@bign1667 Год назад

If you travel alot trust me you don't want an esim you want dual sim physical. Heck even travelling domestically you'll want a temporary sim if no reception.

@Lili-xq9sn Год назад

Exactly! Only in usa, phones in other countries let you swap out sims regularly. People are crossing borders regularly in Europe, for example.

@bign1667 Год назад

@@Lili-xq9sn in Australia dual sim phones get taken the wrong way as if people having a second life doing illegal things. The truth is many of us want a 2nd sim slot to swap to when on holidays without out costing us or morning changes to our primary sim card phone nulber. The other legitimate reason is I want a separate number for when my telcos down in the area and for my boss and colleagues to not call me on my personal number after hours and when I switch jobs I don't wanna be harassed by salespeople and people from my old job I started a fresh job for a fresh start and I may chose at times of my life a fleshly new phone number is the way to go.

@richosb100 Год назад

A well rehearsed and polished rendition of utter bulldust.

@mrronnylives Год назад

That wasn't a reporter on the phone. That's clearly the AT&T marketing manager.

@bernardtan1 Год назад

eSim won't allow you to easily change phones if you need to.

@aryanahmed3301 Год назад

I'm from India. Recently my SIM card randomly malfunctioned after working properly for around 2 years. I went to the service provider outlet, gave ID proofs and within 5 mins had a new working SIM card for absolutely FREE. Just swapped out the old one with the new one and it worked properly. Now imagine if your embedded e-SIM malfunctions...That's gonna be one costly repair :/

@Sanyu-Tumusiime Год назад

there's no physical sim to malfunction.... we just download our sim card from internet. i had esim and it was pretty good.

@swedishem5336 Год назад

Yeah imagine if your motherboard malfunctions, or battery, or anything, that's also gonna be a costly repair, how dare phone developers add things that can't easily be fixed

@BriefNerdOriginal Год назад

This means that carriers will have customers even more locked. Switching a little physical chip is very easy. Carriers are going to make a nightmare for customers to leave them digitally (= purposely bad webpages with little info and many bumps along the way)

@MultiPropanbutan Год назад

I live in Europe and have been using esim for over 2 years. The only little downside I experience is paying an extra 5 euro every time i change phones. You have to also go through the configuration process from the beginning on your new phone by scanning QR code …the process is very easy and quick. I travel a lot outside of Europe (less due to pandemic though) and would always carry Wi-Fi egg in the past …now I can just use another esim as for example iPhone 13 allows me to have 2 of them at the same time …very convenient :)

@MultiPropanbutan Год назад

Ah I forgot to mention you would need to configure your esim from the beginning also when you decide for some reason to reset your phone so in this case for me it would be another 5 euro…but this doesn’t bother me :)

@MatejaMaric Год назад

It’s as easy as going into Settings and tapping “Delete eSIM”. If you want to temporarily disable it, you just tap the “Turn Off” toggle. Really, it’s easier with eSIMs, since you don’t have to deal with actually physical cards, which might get lost or damaged while outside your phone.

@napnemeanix Год назад

Just buy the phone network and factory unlocked so you can use it in any carrier I’m new to the esim

@lundwipro Год назад

I personally prefer physical sim is always better than e-sims . Whoever travel abroad for business or leisure. E-sims are not compatible and friendly i must say. Now a days most of the people use 2 sims

@ong2547 Год назад

try airalo, it is very continence for trips aboard and in many countries, it is much cheaper than buying at the airport \

@Claro1993 8 месяцев назад

For security, I think he missed one point about eSIM in terms of security especially when a phone gets stolen.

@seanferguson5460 Год назад

Those are the pros. What are the cons? The risks? Is the switch inevitable?

@ruzzelladrian907 Год назад

I don’t want to go back to the CDMA days!!!

@darkgalaxy5548 Год назад

Why am I thinking, hacking my phone just got so much easier

@SadeSherrisXO Год назад

All of the reasons he’s listing are far very far fetched. How often is one changing out SIM cards??

@xmalcom650 Год назад

This will give carriers total control. They will charge you to change phones.

@swedishem5336 Год назад

You already get charged to change physical sim? What are you talking about

@jaydibernardo4320 Год назад

After listening to the video & reading the comments I still don't know if this is a good thing, a bad thing or benign. Got me, I guess I'll roll with the punches. I guess in the long run it won't matter when Skynet becomes self aware...then we're all terminated. 😳

@wl6279 Год назад

My Apple Watch uses Esim technology. Still haven’t figured it out yet

@antonomaseapophasis5142 Год назад

Dalvin Brown, please explain the "migration" in DHS & USSS that mysteriously deleted the most crucial texts ever in the history of the USA, and why the top security officials were unable to perform their duties to preserve records. Also, please explain why many of the owners of the 294.15 million smartphones in the US seem to be able to accomplish migration successfully.

@orangedark Год назад

Literally zero advantage.

@CSCS20 Год назад

I love that idea

@Taquitos-burritos Год назад

Seriously !!!!! I have been using eSims since 5 years. You guys need to be better informed about technology

@avifb Год назад

Still, most new phones today don't have the esim option at all.

@TStark-vj2wo Год назад

Most of Apple's, Google's, Samsung's and other major brands new phones are esim enabled, in some cases going back a few years.

@Dotcando Год назад

Because the pros that was listed? Hard to switch? Really? How often do people just switch sim cards? Probably like once a year. It's basically a solution for a non-existent problem.

@swedishem5336 Год назад

@@Dotcando Travelling could be a reason to switch, and that's a pro for eSIM because travelling with eSIM is so much easier than physical, only exception would be to developing countries, but about 80 countries rn support eSIM so unless you frequently travel to developing countries, there's no issue

@carlosochoa9509 Год назад

Carries don’t want that because they not going to charge us for the $10-30 SIM card

@EldergodUK Год назад

I am keeping my regular SIM card and battery removable mobile, unfortunately it's on Android 5 so time is running out!

@jashanpreet8636 Год назад

She said tiny holes No hole is tiny

@analystic1 8 месяцев назад

You did not clarify esims use for international travel

@Zr0din Год назад

Will that give me enough space for the SD card to be included with the high-end phones again? Samsung, Apple, I'm looking at you BOTH! SD Cards are up to 1TB of memory on my PHONE!

@practicalshooter6517 Год назад

It's creating a problem for the individual users when they were NONE, to justify higher cost and more control by the carriers.

@himilayanpoppy3847 Год назад

This almost sounded like a wholesome cookery recipe ! Almost 🤔

@mikuso-iw6gj Год назад

I don't like smaller phone like 2007-2016 smartphone. I think the size now it's enough

@PoliteHound Год назад

Smaller phones?! Every, every smartphone manufacturer is bending towards bigger and bigger ones... How could you say eSims would allow manufacturers to build smaller phones? I also argue swapping Sim cards is hardly a daily task for the overwhelming majority of people. I do not see a point in stressing that out so much.

@oneTOU3 Год назад

Why don't just have dalvin do the bit?

@markb4434 Год назад

Can you get calls to either number if you have two sims? Or is it one active at any one time?

@sarcasmo57 Год назад

Good. To heck with sim cards.

@JoseGarcia-ip4pl Год назад

Chingon ., gracias

@maddominican879 Год назад

Esim is not good.all the reason he gave benefits the carriers not the consumers.sim are good because i can switch phone when i want

@tibsyy895 Год назад

This gonna be awesome in surveillance!

@OO11OO11OOO Год назад

Policing appears to be the primary goal. Say goodbye to privacy totally.

@xmalcom650 Год назад

Lol. You have to hunt down a SIM card while you are abroad. Really. Every corner store sells sim’s in most countries. Plus airports have kiosks.

@andresd6193 Год назад

I remember in the 90's when cell phones started to become really popular I remember that is how my first few phones were, I don't remember any SIM cards.

@chasmader Год назад

Is this a podcast or cheap video? I guess it's both.

@misssometing Год назад

it's stated in the video title. it's from a podcast.

@meganuke9091 Год назад

Losing thing that you can actually own, one by one. I want my simcard. F esim.

@supermodelatlanta1354 Год назад

They need to so something. I lost my sim card had to wait 7 days from a lil cheap cheap co to send it

@luxmunk Год назад

First question: How much does AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile pay the Wall Street Journal in advertising? How glaringly one-sided. A “host” interviewing a “reporter“ is now the authority. Disgraceful. If you can’t remove an e-Sim card, the single thing that shows ownership of a device, then you don’t really own it. You can truly never turn off or disconnect the device from the grid. Now who does that benefit? Probably the people that paid for that “interview.”

@ddramz Год назад

Who’s here after the iPhone 14 announcement?

@franklinegbuche7097 9 месяцев назад

This is problem no one has. People are but removing sim cards daily for them to worry about how hard it is. Only tech companies and govts will benefit from this

@thebeautifulanimal Год назад

It already stated

@Theoryofcatsndogs Год назад

Apple supported e-sim for some time now. Their iPhone in china support duo sims, 1 physical, 1 e-sim. Chinese love to have 2 lines in the same phone for some reason. Also, Apple Watch use e-sim for very long time.

@jkgao97 Год назад

iPhone 11 on supports dual sim. 1 physical, 1 esim

@AM93000 Год назад

It is discriminating that china has the physical sim and esim support.

@Theoryofcatsndogs Год назад

@@AM93000 Well, people in china love to have multiple phoneline in a single cellphone. I don't know why, as China's cellular cost is not that high. But it seems the rest of the world doesn't really need this feature. At least no one in my country complain about it.

@skyezeno8988 Год назад

Great! Mine is not even 5G yet

@Bertrandbizimana Год назад

I predict Apple will be the first to delete the sim tray… just to cut costs further.

@TunbosunOyenuga Год назад

WIZARD

@greebo6549 Год назад

Then my next phone is Apples loss, Samsungs win

@mrld3005 Год назад

They invented the SIM card because in the past you can not switch easily companies, you needed to reprogram or manually configure the phone for the new network. Nowadays you can easily input files and programs into the phone so sims make no sense nowadays, it was a small memory data accesory to keep your contacts, texts and your carrier. Verizon with CDMA eliminated the SIM since the first day.

@CityLifeinAmerica Год назад

Then Verizon got SIM cards and then now they’re going back to no SIM cards.

@Chicago48 Год назад

How much does it cost? Is it a one time cost or a subscription?

@byteme9718 Год назад

Terrible for anyone who travels to many countries who won't have this technology for years.

@rickfrench3966 Год назад

Digital Sim cards are a personal safety issue they are hackable unlike physical Sim cards which can remove cellular connection

@swedishem5336 Год назад

So many other things in your phone can also be easily hacked, have you used a phone before?

@SorminaESar Год назад

When I buy SIMS card, firstly I must be registered my identity card and then useit

@ridhobaihaqi144 Год назад

Indonesia goverment: "nice opportunity to corrupt it"

@kevinlau6372 Месяц назад

iPhones in Canada have physical sim card

@iskuter Год назад

This is going to be a pain in the a** switching phones.. not to mention when your phone just bricked and need to answer a life changing call from someone asap And carriers would be able to charge ypu for every single thing.. sure they'll say its free for now.. but after a year or two.. not so much

@Reconseal4050 Год назад

So they are doing this all for security purposes? SIMs are readily swappable than some silly eSIM. I could only favor an eSIM if they would blacklist and brick a phone that is lost or stolen.

@swedishem5336 Год назад

"SIMs are swappable then some silly eSIM." eSIMs are even easier to swap... I don't understand why people don't know this

@YESITSWILL Год назад

Another fee opportunity for carriers. A $20 We didn't have to send you a physical sim card fee.

@jaywhite1141 Год назад

I don’t think iPhone 14 will be completely ESim only because a lot of carriers don’t really support eSim and Switching phones is a nightmare with the same with a physical Sim you could just pop out the Sim card out of your current phone and pop it into your new phone

@Theoryofcatsndogs Год назад

@fuzer4047 Год назад

@@Theoryofcatsndogs of course its in China another way of tracking

@Theoryofcatsndogs Год назад

@@fuzer4047 Any county can track people with their cellphone with cell towers. Unless you remove the battery from your cellphone, govt can always track you with or without sim.

@fuzer4047 Год назад

@@Theoryofcatsndogs yes i know but i am saying China because they are tracking more than that and this is good for them as a another way of tracking

@Theoryofcatsndogs Год назад

@@fuzer4047 Well, in China, as long as you have a face and walk on street, you are are being track. So it doesn't really matter how they track you.

@JudasBytes Год назад

how does esim work when you travel internationally and buy prepaid sim?

@satyamgupta7021 Год назад

Nice video. Please let me know if all 5G smartphones support e-sim? If not, how to know if a phone supports e-sim? Thank you in advance....

@teekaa2520 Год назад

I heard that news in 2017.

@dewaneadams2023 Год назад

E Sim is just a way so you can’t run off with the phone with a regular Sim card you can run off with the company phone without paying it off and pop a new Sim card in just gotta pay too get the phone unlocked they got smart no more running off

@SaadonAksah Год назад

Well. Sounds like a great idea 👍

@thomaswade3072 Год назад

Wow, you're only about 8 years late to the party. I've had a digital sim card on my google fi phone for 6+ years.

@polakrys Год назад

What would happen if my phone breaks and cannot be turn on, why am on Business trip, how do I swap the eSIM to my backup phone? That’s impossible. They make very difficult for people to swap the phones.

@AkshayPallikkara Год назад

What is this. C’mon WSJ hire a editor to throw some broll over the audio . We don’t want to watch two still photos talking each other

@Vegetariannations Год назад

Photos&videos to be helpful to people on news might have to be required than people listening to words of staffs

@kamikazekid94 Год назад

I like having a physical sim

@swedishem5336 Год назад

Buy an international model then or get another phone model

@Zoza15 Год назад

That would make things a lot easier, but i'm sure there are some things that needs to be ironed out..

@RawGuruRecords Год назад

doesnt seem good for privacy

@juangabriel123ify Год назад

E-sims are terrible for the consumer. Physical sims enable easy switching between numbers and carriers, especially in other parts of the world that aren't the US. E-sims will just drive closer towards the US model that requires phones to be tied to individual Sims, making the switching process much more difficult.

@aroddy2203 Год назад

Except that it's the complete opposite of what you're saying.

@swedishem5336 Год назад

You know you can switch without leaving your house with eSIM? You can store up to at least 10 sims at once! How many can you store with two physical SIM card slots? I'll give you a hint, not nearly as much as eSIM

@juangabriel123ify Год назад

@@swedishem5336 That maybe be the case but you can't dual sim with an esim. Furthermore, you still need to register your phone with the provider before using the esim. With a physical sim, you can use any random phone.

@swedishem5336 Год назад

@@juangabriel123ify You can dual sim with esim, and store at least 8 extras

@insoft_uk Год назад

It’s also cuts down on plastic waste. I remember when Apple came up with idea of having the SIM card chip embedded and the provider just stood there ground said no way so nano sim was created basically why nano sim has hardly any plastic around it as Apple wanted it as basically just the chip

@michaelxz1305 Год назад

The amount of plastic waste from the sim cards including the bigger card they come in of the 5 or some I've purchased in the last year probably amounts to that of a plastic bottle or 2...

@insoft_uk Год назад

@@michaelxz1305 three SIM cards come in mini form they used to come in full sim, never made sense as nobody used that size for the decades, I just hope it’s just a matter of scanning a QR code by logging onto your one’s account to transfer to any phone or use it on multiple phones tho knowing providers they will want to maintain control in some form