If you cant access your new sim card, What is the point of porting freedom to PM. You can't use PM service even porting completed. You need to have a sim card or esim phone to do the porting. I dont know why esim not working with your iphone. But for...
Might not because of PM. I ported my number from koodo few days ago, it only took less than half hour. You might need to talk with freedom to finish porting.
