{"id":960323,"date":"2025-09-10T08:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960323"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:08:42","slug":"apples-move-to-esim-only-strengthens-global-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/10\/apples-move-to-esim-only-strengthens-global-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s move to eSIM-only strengthens global trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s Tuesday announcement that the new iPhone 17 Air will only be available around the world without physical SIM cards marks a new advance for the virtual eSIM technology the firm has relied on in the US for years. <\/p>\n<p>What is an eSIM? <\/p>\n<p>Physical SIM cards contain all the information a phone needs to connect to a mobile network using the contract and number of a specific subscriber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s Tuesday announcement that the new iPhone 17 Air will only be available around the world without physical SIM cards marks a new advance for the virtual eSIM technology the firm has relied on in the US for years. What is an eSIM? Physical SIM cards contain all the information a phone needs to connect to a mobile network using the contract and number of a specific subscriber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}