And how about knowing that it takes a minute to swap a physical sim and there is no server to take its sweet time and at worst not respond like for eSIM?

Say you arrive somewhere where your regular provider doesn't have signal so you get a prepaid sim from the one provider that does have signal. How do you install it if it's an eSIM? You don't have connectivity on your regular.

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JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Say you arrive somewhere where your regular provider doesn't have signal so you get a prepaid sim from the one provider that does have signal. How do you install it if it's an eSIM?

One, you can plan ahead. Two, most of those spots have Wi-fi for this purpose.

There are legitimate reasons to prefer a physical SIM. This isn't one.

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nottorp 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I just think your mountain holidays aren't remote enough :)

	▲	JumpCrisscross 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not saying your scenario is unrealistic. I'm just saying it's avoidable. I'll generally buy an eSim, if I need it, before taking off for my destination. In the cases where I forgot and was somewhere I couldn't get it, the SIM vendor let me hotspot to activate.

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hdgvhicv 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Only time I’ve used an eSIM was a potential problem with roaming on our corporate deal (was supped to be free roaming but they stop said $1.80 a meg) when I landed in New York. I was connecting before we’d finished taxiing.

I have no idea where to get a local sim from, but it would mean I wouldn’t have my normal phone number (unless I had a phone with two physical sims - very rare), and presumably would have had to find a shop at 3 am body clock time and 10pm local time. Maybe there was one post customs, I don’t know as I was autopiloting to the taxi.