Your last ever SIM card: What switching to an eSIM means in practice

If you use an eSIM in your smartphone instead of a standard SIM card, you won’t need to plug in a new SIM card when changing to a new provider. — dpa

BERLIN: In the digital era, the paper clip largely serves one function: helping you fiddle the SIM card tray out of your old smartphone so you can plug it into a new one.

But eSIM technology is on track to make even that use of the paper clip a thing of the past.