In 2015, I found myself walking with a friend at 3 AM to a Walmart in the middle of nowhere, Las Vegas, because we had just landed and really needed prepaid SIM cards for an 8 AM press conference.

I'm not buying the eSIM hype — physical SIM cards are more reliable and make you less dependent on your cellular carrier.

eSIM as a technology has been around for a decade now. However, global eSIM adoption was around 3% last year and will only cross 5% this year. Despite these figures, analysts, eSIM-providing startups, ...