Responding to a 2023 survey, mobile network operators expected less than a third of global cellular IoT (internet of things) connections to use traditional removable SIM cards in 2030. Operators instead expected ** percent of connections to use eSIMs (embedded SIMs), with a further ** percent using iSIM technology.
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