• vodka@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      You get a QR code for the new sim, go into the eSIM manager on the phone, and scan it

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        11 months ago

        I don’t want a “new sim”, I want my old one, which doesn’t exist anymore since it was virtual and only existed in my now broken previous phone. How does it work in that situation?

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          11 months ago

          Call your carrier or go into a store and they move it over. If your phone is broken you’ll kinda be SOL since there’s no way to authenticate the move.

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            11 months ago

            Exactly. What a shitty anti-feature. Your answer proves that the people saying that “eSIMs are functionally the same as normal SIM” are full of absolute shit.

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                11 months ago

                Keeping my number. Are you saying that I can immediately, online, get my existing number connected to a different handset? If I can’t, then that’s why I want to transfer the physical SIM.

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                  11 months ago

                  Now I can’t answer for other regions, but with my carrier here in Norway I can sign in to their website and authenticate with the government ID system (bankid) and generate a new esim and get the QR code. Takes about a minute total.

                  I’m personally more for physical sim cards as swapping it into a new phone or swapping in a traveler datasim etc is just something I prefer to have physically.

                  That being said, I use esim for my phone number, and then swap in travel sims for data with my physical sim slot, works really well when you travel a lot.

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                  11 months ago

                  Are you saying that I can immediately, online, get my existing number connected to a different handset?

                  Yes, that’s exactly how it works

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                    11 months ago

                    What prevents someone else from doing that at any point, taking over my number? Is the only authentication a simple login to the mobile provider’s website?

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                11 months ago

                Not the person you asked but I have a couple of sims by different providers that I swap between phones/sim routers when I need to make calls or use data from that carrier. Popping the sim into an old device and configuring whatever I need is super convenient.