topic Re: Sim or eSim? in Get Support

Sim or eSim?

Maxx2000 — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 15:45:04 GMT

I transfered my number to Public Mobile yesterday from Sim to eSim. Does it any advantage or disadvantage in that action?

Re: Sim or eSim?

Rastin — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 15:49:06 GMT

A sim card make it easy to swap phone out but that about it

Re: Sim or eSim?

slusagm — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 15:49:59 GMT

esim Pro: easy, free, and it is free to get replacement now

physical pro: easier to swap phone , especially for troubleshoot purpose

Re: Sim or eSim?

hairbag1 — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 15:59:11 GMT

@Maxx2000

you have esim now ?...next time you need a new phone, you'll hafta get a new esim. Whereas with the hard sim, you coulda just removed from old phone and install in new phone.

Re: Sim or eSim?

EB0 — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:00:52 GMT

@Maxx2000

I prefer SIM, way to swap, supported by all phones, some customers have problem installing eSIM.

Re: Sim or eSim?

eddieO — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:15:09 GMT

@Maxx2000, one nice advantage to eSIM is for when traveling abroad and you want to get service in another country (outside of Canada and USA), you can have multiple eSIMs on your phone to switch between and you don't have to worry about physically taking them out to swap which also removes the risk of losing or damaging the physical SIM card that is not being used.

Re: Sim or eSim?

Meow — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:33:19 GMT

Physical SIM you can transfer from any phone to any phone. Reliable and almost impossible to fail. Your phone dies, pull out SIM, get new phone, push SIM in and you are in business in no time.

eSIM once installed cannot be transferred to another phone. If your phone dies PM might give you eSIM replacement for free. Might... eSIM can fail as it is software thing... and software fails...

Personally, I would Always take physical SIM.

Re: Sim or eSim?

Shutdown — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:56:55 GMT

Disadvantage would be you can't just swap it into a new phone now without probably paying. An advantage would be if someone steals your phone they can't just take the sim card out and put it in their phone and try to reset all your bank logins and stuff.

Re: Sim or eSim?

will13am — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:28:45 GMT

P-SIM all the way until the friction of using e-SIM goes down.

Re: Sim or eSim?

hTideGnow — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:29:47 GMT

hi @will13am iSim is coming as well.. 🙂