New Disruptive Analysis Written Report & Forecast On Esim: Pre-Order Discount

I'm inward the in conclusion stages of preparing a written report on the condition of the eSIM market, including forecasts for adoption too installed base, out to 2021.  

The written report will focus on the use-cases for eSIM, too take in the drivers for, and barriers to, uptake inward unlike sectors, including smartphones too IoT/wearables.

It'll endure published inward the adjacent calendar week or 2 after editing is complete, but if you wish to pre-order it, I'm offering a 15% discount, until publication date.

Some preliminary outputs:

• There are numerous potential use-cases for “remote provisioning” of SIMs with mobile operator “profiles”, specially where the SIM hardware is built-into devices.
• However despite theoretical benefits, eSIM adoption volition stimulate got a tedious start. 
• 2016-17 deployment volition generally endure early on concepts, to allow operators too OEMs to gain sense of eSIM practicalities too refine implementation too processes. 
• The marketplace will too then ramp upwards inward 2019-2021 equally cost, manufacture value-chain too user-experience problems are progressively solved.
• In smartphones, eSIM adoption volition endure real gradual, driven past times tedious maturity of expert user-experience of choosing an operator/plan, too the costs of implementation & back upwards vs. device margin. In many ways, eSIM volition endure aligned with 5G's arrival, non 4G maturity. 
• Apple may good endure the eSIM king-maker - but volition endure conservative inward adoption, specially inward its iPhone flagship, where the near-term risks outweigh whatsoever benefits.
• For many M2M/IoT devices, the eSIM conclusion is secondary to justifying the extra cost, infinite too ability needs of the cellular radio itself. (As I discussed inward Feb - meet link here)
• There rest unanswered questions almost regulation, customer-support too concern model for eSIM. Although some projected cost-savings or additional device connections are attractive for operators, it is unclear that OEMs volition generate extra revenues rapidly & painlessly enough, for them to back upwards the applied scientific discipline inward novel mainstream devices.
• eSIM is occurring with other applied scientific discipline trends inward mobile - SDN/NFV virtualisation, LPWAN & LTE Cat-0/NB-IoT for IoT too hence forth. It volition demand to coexist too endure co-developed, which may convey additional complexities.
• Alongside eSIM, we will too meet continued innovation inward other areas of SIM technology, both standardised too proprietary. Some use-cases (eg temporary/cheaper roaming subscriptions) tin endure offered using other approaches such equally multi-IMSI MVNOs, or (less securely) early on soft-SIM variants
• Chicken-and-egg problem: until most operators back upwards eSIM, handset vendors volition even hence demand removable SIM slots equally well, or else create multiple device variants
• Definitions of "eSIM" demand to endure carefully examined. Many people practice not empathize the nuances too brand inaccurate or confused predictions.
• By 2021, over 500m mobile & IoT devices volition send with embedded, remotely-provisioned SIMs annually, driven generally past times smartphones, although vehicles too tablets exhibit increase before
• By end-2021, the installed base of operations of eSIM-enabled devices volition overstep 1 billion - although that is petty to a greater extent than than 10% of the overall cellular universe at that time

The written report is based on a large amount of primary inquiry undertaken inward recent months, among a wide cross-section of service-providers, vendors, manufacture bodies, regulators, startups too other commentators, equally good equally many years of analysis of SIM conception (eg multi-IMSI SIM cards, which I starting fourth dimension looked at to a greater extent than than vii years agone - link). 

It examines both drivers too inhibitors of adoption, from the perspective of MNOs, OEMs too end-users. In particular, it covers a wide ready of technical, commercial too regulatory issues that demand resolution too experience, before eSIM tin move a massmarket offer.

The written report volition endure some 35 pages inward length, too is aimed at strategy executives, CTOs, CMOs, venture architects & planning/operational staff at communications service providers, SIM & network equipment & software vendors, device vendors, investors, regulators, integrators, developers too like organisations.

THE PRE-PUBLICATION DISCOUNT HAS NOW EXPIRED. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE & FOR FURTHER DETAILS.