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Do y'all use eSim or Physical Sim for your phone? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by NotSkynet@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just curious.

I used eSim for a while when I first got a phone that supported eSim, because I wanted to make it harder for a thief to disable the phone tracking, but now my main phone is broken and I'm a bit annoyed at having to chat with customer support for half and hour to activate eSim on another device.

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[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been using a physical sim for a while and while I normally would be fine with esim I've heard of various issues with them including having tethering data be used as normal data. There's also the ease of switching between phones with a physical sim so for now I'll continue using it.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You have a separate data plan for tethering?

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No I've read about issues where after switching to esim people have had all phone data get reported as if it was tethered. For example if you have 2 gigs of tethering data included with your unlimited plan then you effectively have only 2 gigs of data if this issue affected you.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I didn't know anyone had a separate limit for tethering.