Vodacom has stated that it is working on support for eSIMs.<\/p>\n
\u201cVodacom is currently developing support for eSIM in conjunction with the various device manufacturers and will launch commercial support at the appropriate time,” said Vodacom.<\/p>\n
The statement from Vodacom follows questions from MyBroadband on the network’s plans for eSIMs.<\/p>\n
Apple’s new iPhones feature eSIM<\/strong><\/a> technology – with a dual-SIM set-up consisting of a single physical SIM and one eSIM.<\/p>\n An eSIM is an embedded SIM which is built into a device and needs to be enabled by a mobile network to function.<\/p>\n Vodacom stated in October 2017<\/strong><\/a>, following the launch of the Apple Watch Series 3 Cellular, that it would be ready to support eSIM technology if it launched in South Africa.<\/p>\n Rain Mobile has stated<\/strong><\/a> that it is also looking at eSIM support, and will engage with Apple to support the technology in new iPhones.<\/p>\n Vodacom has stated it is working on support for eSIMs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":273557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[50207,1125,41],"class_list":["post-275493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-esim","tag-iphone","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275495,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275493\/revisions\/275495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0MTN launches new Voice Over LTE service<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"