BROWSING: eSIMS

For the past decade or so, speed was the primary focus for operators. More bandwidth meant happier customers, paving the way for more data-intensive use cases like high-resolution video streaming and AR/VR services. That’s all well and good, but what use are lightning-fast speeds...

The IoT industry has made great strides in recent years, driven largely by the expansion of applications and development of supporting technologies, but factors such as cost and practicality have typically held back mass production.  Take cellular IoT as an example, where the limitations of...

When deploying IoT equipment in remote locations, chances are you’ll be using cellular communication to collect data from and send instructions to each device. This means you’ll need a subscriber identity module — more commonly known as a SIM, or, as they were known...

Juniper Research forecasts that 80% of global operator-billed service revenue will be attributable to 5G services by 2027 Mobile operators are forecast to generate $625 billion from 5G services globally by 2027, up from $310 billion in 2023, according to recent analysis by Juniper Research. The...

When buying a new digital service, be it Netflix or Spotify, customers complete the on-boarding process and then start using the service straight away. For the vast majority of mobile customers, there is usually a delay of several days between on-boarding and getting to...

ST is accredited by GMSA to produce eSIMs; ST will ship pre-formated eSIMs directly to OEMs. Semiconductor company STMicroelectronics now has accreditation from the GSMA to produce embedded SIMs (eSIMs) and load connection credentials such as certificates and operator profiles before shipping. The eSIM is GSMA’s...