Vodafone Ireland have recently started issuing ESims in ROI. I think Three should follow suit soon, handsets such as iPhone only allow dual sim using one of these
We established 3 weeks ago that the iPhone 15 would have a physical SIM tray when I posted a link above, so this is no surprise. The eSIM-only rumour in March 2023 was specifically about France, but even the French version has a physical SIM tray: https://www.apple.com/fr/iphone-15-pro/specs/
Is it not strange to anyone else that Three UK advertise eSIM, yet Three Ireland have no public launch date? Three all over Europe offer eSIMs, why is Ireland so different? It doesn’t make sense, this is such a basic feature at this point.
@TonybThree UK has been misleading its customers for almost 5 years about eSIM. The page you mention has been there for almost 3 years, but Three UK pulled its eSIM launch apparently after something went wrong. It wasn't until 2023 that Three UK started to relaunch eSIM, only for some customers. Last week I explained the history of Three UK's misleading communications about eSIM at https://community.three.co.uk/t5/Account-and-services/eSIM-for-pay-as-you-go/td-p/17774
My guess is that Three Ireland has learnt from Three UK's mistakes and hesitated to launch eSIM until a new customer management system is in place, as Three UK eventually did.
@Toryb Three UK and Three Ireland are handled as separate entities, especially now since Three UK and Vodafone UK will be merging.
@CiaranM Good spot with that article I would say it will be a launch of late Novemeber/Decemeber to tie in with Christmas handset sales and the above Comreg Consumer awareness campaign,
@billbond4 Both Three Ireland and Three UK have the same chief executive - Robert Finnegan. So although they are legally separate entities, they are not managed separately.
Reports in August 2021 here and here explained that Three had just signed an agreement with Amdocs for both Three UK and Three Ireland, which included eSIM functionality. This suggests that both entities are dependent on Amdocs for eSIM. For Three UK, customers need to be migrated to the new Amdocs customer management system for eSIM to be available. So far, this happened for new tariffs in January 2023 and for existing postpaid tariffs in August 2023. Prepaid customers are still waiting. Migrated customers experience a new web user interface for managing their account, and are informed of the migration a few days in advance.
Its probably down to the difference between their core networks
3 UK core network provider is Nokia and 3 Ireland is 3 Ericsson (I think ) Also there is lots of Huawei HW been replaced in both Ireland and UK
Amdocs can integrate eSIM provisioning on the assumption that the network is able to take eSIMs, but the network has to be able to support them first and thats the delay.
