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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by Nextgrid on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @09:50AM (#29714281)
Multiple numbers is already technically possible and does not require eSIM. It does require the carrier to innovate and actually do some engineering though, and there's no market pressure for them to do so.
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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by heavenlyblue on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @10:19AM (#29714536)
Vodafone UK still associates your contract with a phone number. That is, if you wanted to keep the contract and re-associate your phone number with a new contract that is not possible without paying for the remaining months on the contract.
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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by Nextgrid on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @10:21AM (#29714554)
Potentially, but my point is that it's a commercial decision or incompetence (maybe the number is used as the primary key for the contract record?) - technically there is no reason for this.
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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by heavenlyblue on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @10:35AM (#29714678)
It’s incompetence driven by the market conditions: nobody on the market can do that and therefore no one is motivated to do that. I can understand that maybe not many customers ever need this too. AFAIK the engineer on the other side of the call said nobody provides such a service in the UK.
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