eSIM’s Slow Climb as Users Cling to Physical SIMs

Despite years of industry hype, eSIM adoption is lagging as many phone owners still prefer traditional physical SIM cards, often out of habit and lack of awareness. South Korea illustrates this reluctance clearly: only about 5% of mobile subscribers use eSIMs, even after a network hacking scandal nudged some users to switch, prompting the government to consider policies and support programs to boost uptake. In contrast, North America leads global eSIM adoption with an estimated 38% market share, but much of that growth comes from eSIM‑only phones like recent iPhones, Google’s Pixel 10 series, and select Motorola models that leave buyers with no alternative. Surveys in the UK show that many consumers have never heard of eSIMs or do not know if their phones support them, and negative user experiences further slow voluntary adoption. Although forecasts from GSMA and Juniper Research predict that a large share of new connections will eventually be eSIM‑based, growth in the near term is expected to come more from industrial and infrastructure uses than from smartphones, unless awareness and user experience significantly improve. – [Source]

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Lemmy is an open-source, self-hostable link aggregation and discussion platform, similar to Reddit or Hacker News, but operating on a decentralized network called the Fediverse. Users can subscribe to “communities” (similar to subreddits) on different servers, or “instances,” and interact with users and communities across the entire network using the ActivityPub protocol. This decentralized model offers alternatives to centralized social media by promoting user control, data ownership, and community autonomy.

I recently discovered Lemmy, and although I haven’t signed up for an account there yet, I have been checking in on some of the discussions that seemed interesting enough to follow, or that may offer some useful resources. Below is a list of some of the topics I check in on from time to time.

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