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Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car

Do you have a phone, tablet, or laptop (or, well, any device…) which will only take a physical SIM, but with which you’d like to use eSIMs?

I could not use them to make or receive calls or start a data session - which was fine - but they did show up in Android’s SIM card manager as available eSIMs. I spent quite a long time trying to work out why it would not detect the SIM in the smartcard reader (which, as above, was solved by using the supplied packaging material). It appears to use a platform run by Kigen for remote SIM provisioning, so it looks like there is a dependency on a third party’s infrastructure to make all this work.

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