At last! The new iPhone is driving the transition to the eSIM
The news that the new iPhone 14 had been launched in the United States without a SIM card tray, thus making the eSIM the only option for its owners, has sparked some protests, particularly among frequent travelers who found the possibility of arriving in a country and exchanging their operator’s SIM for a local one the best option for maintaining data access at a reasonable price; that’s to say, rather than paying for a concept as outdated as roaming.
Roaming is like manna from heaven for phone companies. Let’s be honest, in this day and age, the idea that one has to pay through the nose to make calls or connect to the internet is daylight robbery and should be made illegal. Ever since the adoption of cell phones became reasonably widespread, people have tried to avoid extortionate roaming charges , either by purchasing a local SIM — let’s remember that not that long ago, handsets were locked to a particular operator — or by contracting a reasonable data tariff and carrying a MiFi or mobile WiFi hotspot on us to ensure connectivity (which is the solution I have been choosing for a long time now).
But do we really need data that much when we travel? Nowadays, traveling without data is a headache: from using a simple map to get from one place to another in a foreign city, to calling an Uber, to something as simple as…
