Samsung recently enabled eSIM support for some of its current generation foldable smartphones in the US market but the feature isn’t available for every region. For instance, its home market of South Korea doesn’t have eSIM support.
That is about to change if the latest report is to be believed. A new report has claimed that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 and the Samsung Galaxy Flip 4 smartphones will be the first to have eSIM support for the South Korean market.
Network operators in South Korea haven’t rolled out eSIM services over several factors, including concerns about SIM card sales, increasing subscriber churn, and declining average revenue per subscriber.
The government has been negotiating with the telecom operators since last year to introduce support for eSIM technology and now it appears that the carriers are in the final stage of developing eSIM support for cellular connectivity.
eSIM eliminates the need to use a physical SIM card to get cellular connectivity and is also easy to switch between carriers. The service can be activated remotely by installing eSIM, making some operators worry about subscriber churn because of ease.
Samsung’s foldable smartphones already have eSIM support enabled in the regions where the technology is available and the company will continue to offer it on the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 smartphones.
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