Re:Zero Trust SIM
by lxgr on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:26PM
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As others have mentioned, companies can (and some but not all do!) tie physical SIMs to a given IMEI just as well, so it‘s less a question of goodwill and more one of competition, consumer education and choice etc.
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Re:Zero Trust SIM
by ajsnigrutin on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:29PM
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I think this (tieing phones to sims and vice versa) is forbidden in EU.
It's less about what's technically forbidden and more about what's actually enforced.
If the carrier forces you to spend an hour on hold to talk to a customer support agent to reissue an eSIM provisioning code, would that be considered tying? Probably not, yet it's still very effective at discouraging people from switching phones.