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All about eSIMs

Nafisa Akabor, 10/06/2024 0 4 min read

There’s been an increase in eSIM availability on smartphones in the last couple of years, and most of the phones...

Nafisa Akabor, 01/10/2023 2 3 min read

Melon Mobile launched eSIM support a few days ago. Melon runs on the MTN network, and made a claim last...

Nafisa Akabor, 28/09/2023 0 2 min read

Melon Mobile has finally rolled out eSIM support, available exclusively on its smartphone apps. It was meant to rollout at...

Recharged, 25/08/2023 0 2 min read

MTN South Africa is now offering an eSIM functionality to all prepaid customers on the network. The feature has been...

Nafisa Akabor, 07/08/2023 0 2 min read

A week after Airalo received $60m in funding to help it expand, it has announced out a new eSIM product....

Nafisa Akabor, 26/06/2023 0 2 min read

I’ve written about eSIMs in last couple of years covering travel, Telkom’s free offering and more recently, Vodacom now offering...

Nafisa Akabor, 22/06/2023 4 3 min read

Vodacom has officially launched its eSIM service after the information appeared on its website last week. All customers including, prepaid,...

Recharged, 13/06/2023 1 2 min read

Vodacom South Africa has announced that that it will offer an eSIM to all customers including prepaid, post-paid and top-up...

Nafisa Akabor, 28/09/2022 0 5 min read

I’ve been testing eSIMs for a while now because anything that is convenient automatically becomes an interest of mine. If...

Nafisa Akabor, 02/12/2021 0 2 min read

An embedded SIM card, also known as an eSIM, has exploded in popularity. It is part of the phone’s hardware:...

Nafisa Akabor, 01/10/2021 0 3 min read

In my monthly column on JustOneLap, I wrote about eSIM cards. Things got interesting in August when Telkom announced support...

Nafisa Akabor, 26/08/2021 0 4 min read

Telkom enabled eSIM card support on its network on Tuesday, 24 August. The company said in a release that it...