Originally Posted by
frappant
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By the way I stopped by a TIM store here and they offered the TIM Tourist or International SIM with 100 GB of 5G for €30. And the clerk said they could give me an eSIM since I only have eSIM devices on this trip.
So hopefully the European carriers offer eSIM for prepaid more and more, since Apple is apparently going to drop physical SIM card slots going forward.
I also hope that more primary international carriers begin offering eSIMs. One of the things keeping me vastly overpaying for T-Mobile service is the very generous and drop dead simply international data (5 GB in like 180+ countries). it just works. That said, when we are not traveling internationally we are almost always on Wi-Fi (when at home, etc.) and we are just way, way overpaying relative to what we need
most of the time. I've been hesitant to drop T-Mobile, in favor of a MVNO (e.g. Mint or Visible) due to the various performance issues I've seen mention with some of the more common eSIM providers but if more primary carriers around the world begin offering eSIM, that would change the calculus for us.
Regards
P.S. Apple already dropped physical SIM support sometime ago, at least in the US. The last US phone to support physical SIM slot is iPhone 13 (14 and 15 are eSIM only)