The embedded SIM (eSIM) market has grown significantly in the last few years, Antony Savvas looksat key recent developments and charts where it is going.
It’s predicted that by 2025, there will be two billion shipped eSIM-enabled devices, according to Counterpoint Research. In 2018, 364 million eSIMs were shipped, according to the firm, so the trajectory of the market is clear.
Avneesh Prakash, the vice president for mobility at Tata Communications, says: “Enterprises are increasingly relying on mobile devices to operate and access data in the cloud. This, along with the rise in the number of M2M connections globally, is creating an immense opportunity for the eSIM market. Hence, driving further innovation in eSIM technology will be crucial in securing a successful future for businesses across automotive, manufacturing, aviation, supply chain as well as other industries.”
Tata Communications’ MOVE offering embeds connectivity at the chip level – not only enhancing security of the IoT devices but also lifting the traditional barriers of massive deployment and scalability. “Our work of embedding connectivity at the microelectronics level is very fundamental to easing not just scalability but achieving zero trust security implementation in IoT deployments,” adds Prakash.
IoT deployments
Luc Vidal, head of IoT and MVNE solutions at connectivity provider BICS, says of the growth: “Demand for eSIMs is growing with increasing global IoT deployments. We work with a large number of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers from both the consumer IoT world and the industrial IoT world, and eSIM technology is being more frequently requested by our OEM customers. They can integrate one single SIM at the point of manufacture, allowing their hardware to natively find connectivity wherever it is deployed.”
“Value is added by eSIMs offering the flexibility to replace global connectivity providers with local ones, enabling the best local network partner to support IoT use cases, while optimising costs,” he adds.
