1.2 billion ESIM installed worldwide |igeneration

ESIM gradually spread around the world.There would be a total of 1.2 billion integrated into devices today, according to Juniper Research, which anticipates an increase to 3.4 billion in 2025.

Apple plays a major role in the democratization of these electronic chips which replace or second plastic SIM cards.The iPhone XS were almost the first smartphones to integrate an ESIM - the Pixel 2 have ahead of them, but they have not sold as many units ... Since the launch of the iPhone SE 2020, all Apple phones have benefitedof an esim.

Some high -end Android smartphones incorporate an ESIM, but they remain very minority.Manufacturers always favor the double nano-Sim location (which Apple does for iPhone sold for China for regulatory reasons).

In the iPhone and in cellular iPads, ESIM plays the role of second SIM, in addition to the location for the nano-sim card.But in the Apple Watch as in the other 4G connected watches, it is obviously the only chip dedicated to cell connection.

In France, Orange took care of the ESIM of the iPhone in 2019.SFR, Bouygues and Free Mobile got there only last year - at the very end of the year for the troublemaker.Improvements remain to be done so much on the Apple side (to manage the double SIM in 5g, for example, which will happen with iOS 14.5), that on the side of operators, to simplify the procedures.Regarding the ESIM of the Apple Watch, Bouygues and Free Mobile still do not manage it.

In a survey carried out last year in our columns, you were 31 % to declare to take advantage of the ESIM of your iPhone.