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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Genuinely asking, what do you gain by transferring the physical Sim?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Keeping my number. Are you saying that I can immediately, online, get my existing number connected to a different handset? If I can't, then that's why I want to transfer the physical SIM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Now I can't answer for other regions, but with my carrier here in Norway I can sign in to their website and authenticate with the government ID system (bankid) and generate a new esim and get the QR code. Takes about a minute total.

I'm personally more for physical sim cards as swapping it into a new phone or swapping in a traveler datasim etc is just something I prefer to have physically.

That being said, I use esim for my phone number, and then swap in travel sims for data with my physical sim slot, works really well when you travel a lot.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You won't be able to use the bankid when your previous phone is broken, though. That's my point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I've got a physical code generator as backup like any person worried about their phone breaking should have.

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