@TP113 Why does it make life easier if you use Smarty as your main sim?
I see the benefit of using an Esim when travelling - but as a temporary measure. When back in the |UK (or EU) not sure why it makes a difference to have a physical or Esim in the phone. New phones allow a number of sims to be added (useful for roaming outside EU).
@LuckyRabbit But what is the great advantage to an Esim ? Nobody seems to have addressed this here.
As I mentioned earlier, it is great for quickly adding a sim for travel - no need to go to a shop or wait for sim to be sent if you need to travel suddenly. Other than that, what else?
@MSFFor some it's a Personal preference which isn't a great reason but definitely one that people care about.
Apart from that though one I can think of is better security. If your device is stolen a physical sim can be removed and stop the device from being tracked or found an esim is integrated into the device so cannot be removed.
Another reason is physical Sims can degrade or become damaged over time any issues regarding this is negated by ESims.
Both of these particularly the second one are niche but are reasons people would prefer Esim technology to physical Sims, there's also the possibility that down the line apple and other manufacturers will do awa with the Sim slot like they did with the headphone jack, apples already done this in America so not impossible for this to spread.
Personally I'd love for them to have ESims but it's not a dealbreaker for me with Smarty. It's not really a need but definitely a nice to have at least in my case.
eSims at the moment are more of a gimmick, with mostly the higher-end devices supporting them. Smarty, as a relative budget cell provider is definitely not interested in adding gimmicks to the network, it would probably end up raising the prices of the existing plans to phase this in when there strictly isn't a need for them. I suspect they are already on extremely thin profit margins considering the pricing of other providers.
You have to pick your battles in business, you're either an all-thrills provider, or focus on being the cheapest. Smarty is most likely the latter. I just wish the team was more transparent in regards to this instead of letting these suggestions quietly fade into obscurity, at this point I'm not even sure what is the point of this section.
Definitely not complaining however, I am getting data speeds that rival the biggest UK networks at a fraction of the price, for that I'll take a barebones network anyday,
