Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret
3abas@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoYour carrier is the problem. I just login to my carrier’s app on the new phone and boom new esim.
That’s not a solution. There is no other carrier that has the coverage I need.
The problem with eSIM as a concept is that it puts too much responsibility on the carrier, and there are way too many shitty carriers out there, and with the cost of building a network and the limited amount of spectrum, mobile carriers are not a functioning free market.
That doesn’t mean that your carrier isn’t the problem.
Just like the person you replied to, I to can just log in to my carriers app on a new phone and get eSIM fixed there if my old phone is in an unusable state.
So I have Xfinity and your supposed to be able to do this via web. I was riding my dual sport deep in the woods and lost my phone. Tried my damn way to activate an s21+ I had in a drawer and it kept kicking it back. I go to store and they cannot activate it as it’s “but supported by their network”. They try to sell me a new phone. I’m frustrated and on like day 3 no phone so I said fuck it I’ll buy the cheapest Motorola on the shelf, but inder one condition. I refused to buy the phone or continue my contract unless they would give me a physical sim (they tried pushing the esim HARD). I got home, took the sim out of my Motorola, popped it into my “unsupported phone” and JT worked fucking fine. Esims are just another complication and way to get tech illiterate into the store. As long as I can I will never let go of my physical sim ever again.
wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What a sane person would want to install a shitty carrier app just for that? There should be a way to do it via their web ui in the least
3abas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, my carrier’s app isn’t super shitty, actually. No ads, no bloat, just account management.
But… You get a new phone, you install the app and login to get your esim, then uninstall. Not exactly a difficult problem.
wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How do you how shitty it is or not? Have you examined their code? Do you trust some blindly to let them run arbitrary code on your device? They are preferring to shove their app into our devocea for many many reasons that non of them are for our benefit.
And uninstalling right after is closing the gate after the horses are long gone