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Some small carriers in Australia don't support eSIMs, even though they're required for Apple Watches and other devices, and also second phone numbers in phones without dual SIM card trays.

I'm hoping that the iPhone Air will make them prioritise eSIM support!

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Some carriers in the UK have been on the brink of providing eSIM support for several years, maybe Apple as often is the case can drive this forward.

I’m not sure what the issue is though, could it be a standards issue? Government tracking phone users? Someone being cut out of the money?

Answers please on a postcard.

Australia has like 100 reseller phone networks. There are only 3 real network providers and these as well as the majority of the resellers support esim, but when every single retail brand and supermarket has it's own mobile network offering, there's always going to be a couple that haven't put in even the smallest amount of work to support it until it's absolutely forced.

Seriously? Which ones don't support it, I actually have found more that are "esim only" these days (but I am someone who churns through ozbargain deals)

AussieBroadband (who use Optus wholesale). I love 'em, and literally my only complaints after years of using them are:

- lack of eSIM support

- invoice/statement layout hard to read

- businesses can use the residential NBN plans but they don't display correctly on their Carbon business portal

- some advanced mobile service control codes to configure message bank, call forwarding, etc, don't seem to work

Everything else about them has been perfect. Great service, reasonable prices, perfect reliability (zero downtime AFAIK!), and Australian-owned.

(Gonna chuck my AussieBroaband referral code here in case this convinces someone to switch! 13610811)

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