Is eSIM really a good substitute for Roaming?
Looks like eSIM is back in fashion, well at least talking about it seems to be. Unfortunately, yet again the posts that I’ve seen either provide half-truths that are then extrapolated to far-fetched conclusions to promote self-interests, or they are from people who just seem to have discovered its existence, and don’t understand Roaming.
Comparing an eSIM used to substitute Roaming to Roaming itself is a much more nuanced discussion, rather than saying that an eSIM is cheaper, but it’s easy to bang the drum to create noise, especially if, like a little kid, you’ve just discovered it, and so people do.
Let’s make something clear, of course eSIMs are great, and have a place in the eco-system, what the heck, I’ll even agree that this is probably the beginning of the end of the traditional SIM. But the fact that they are going to kill off roaming is something akin to saying Facebook will kill the BBC or CNN!