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> I am quite annoyed by the people who don't see the issue with eSim because "they never had an issue" with it. It's like having one murder down your block and stating that you don't see the issue because nobody attempted to murder you so far.

TBH that's most people on most subjects.

First one that comes to mind:

"I'm an honest citizen and never did anything wrong and never had a bank account frozen, hence it never happens to honest citizens who did nothing wrong".

Honest. But oh-so-very dumb.



You sound like you had a murder down your block and you are scared (understandably), but if nobody else anywhere had any murders you should understand why they aren't scared.

My carrier lets me issue esims myself on their website. I can login, get a QR code, and scan it on my phone and the service just starts working.

Personally I find this preferable to having to go to a physical location, and the fact that I can issue a new sim card to myself anywhere in the world has been very helpful.


But all of the issues people cite wrt esim have in some way been mentioned years ago too, just in relation with regular sim cards.

Seriously, the tech is massively over vilified in this thread. You can get issues, but the alternative isn't perfect either

It's partly luck and partly choosing high trust carriers what gets you a stable experience.




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