The eSIM standard was introduced in 2016, slowly gaining support as a secondary option in smartphones. Rather than holding ...

You have almost certainly seen a SIM card: a thumbnail-sized chip that sits somewhere in your mobile phone, telling it which carrier and what phone number you use. Now, those SIMs are going digital ...

I still remember the frustration of landing in a new country, desperately searching for a local subscriber identity module (SIM) card vendor while juggling my luggage. It felt like an unnecessary ...

SIMs – the tiny plastic cards you’ve got to shove into a tray to make things work – have been around almost since the first portable phones. They let your device to connect to mobile networks for ...

SIM as a technology has been around for a decade now. However, global eSIM adoption was around 3% last year and will only cross 5% this year. Despite these figures, analysts, eSIM-providing startups, ...

Whether you’ve bought a brand new Pixel or are getting an older model second-hand, it’s time to activate your device to a network. While many of us traditionally used SIM cards to accomplish this, the ...

The digital version of the SIM card, included on many newer phones, is set to become prevalent. It also offers affordable cellular data abroad. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead ...

Mint Mobile, Boost Mobile and US Mobile see room for growth as eSIM technology could make switching networks even easier. Eli covered the latest in the ever-changing worlds of telecom, streaming and ...

Apple is finally adding eSIM transfer between iPhone and Android with the release of iOS 26. The much-anticipated feature is meant to make the frequently annoying process of transferring your mobile ...