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Re:Apple Is Building Its Own Modem, Plays Long Game in Dropp... by maxsilver on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:32AM (#41290923)
> Carriers see the ability to easily move a physical SIM outside of their control as a problem

Every carrier has already had the ability to block moving physical SIMS too, for many decades now. (AT&T in the US literally did used to block physical SIM swaps, for ages)

eSIMs don't actually give carriers any more-or-less control over SIM movement than they already had before.

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Re:Apple Is Building Its Own Modem, Plays Long Game in Dropp... by Nextgrid on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:34AM (#41290935)
Maybe this was common in the US, but absolutely unheard of in Europe.

eSIMs allow them to sneak in that control as part of the move to eSIMs and get consumers to accept it, even though technically they already had this control previously.

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Re:Apple Is Building Its Own Modem, Plays Long Game in Dropp... by pests on Monday August 19, 2024 @10:20PM (#41296185)
On Verion I get a text if any device on my plan has its sim changed. They can easily block them if they wanted to.
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