According to GSMA Intelligence, at the end of June 2023 nearly 400 mobile service providers – MNOs, MVNOs and providers of international roaming services – had launched commercial eSIM services for smartphones across 116 countries.
At around the same time, Mobile World Live conducted an online survey of smartphone OEMs/ODMs, IoT device makers and device design manufacturers and laptop/tablet manufacturers to better understand the timeline for incorporating eSIM technology into devices and learn how much of a manufacturers’ future product portfolio will include eSIMs.
The findings of the reader survey uncovered some interesting insights, such as:
- There is some urgency among OEMs that don’t currently offer eSIM devices to start to do so.
- More than a third of smartphone OEM/ODMs will massively increase the proportion of eSIM devices in their portfolio in the next two years.
- 70% of IoT OEMs that don’t currently sell devices with eSIMs say they plan to do so within the next 24 months.
- Laptop and tablet OEMs that currently sell eSIM devices believe much of their product portfolio will include eSIMs within three years.
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