eSIM and 5G

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More and more we tend to be always connected with all the gadgets we have around us It&39;s no longer just a matter of having a connection to the network in our smartphone but we have seen how other devices such as tablets, portable consoles or smartwatches have chosen to include a SIM inside to facilitate access to the network."

A trend that may have a next step in desktops, or that is apparently what they have in mind in Microsoft, who think of 5G and eSIMs as the next steps we could see in computers.

Microsoft wants to improve the connectivity of its PC's and in this sense from Redmond it seems that they have fixed on the solution that can mean providing to its support system for the increasingly talked about 5G connectivity as well as for eSIM cards.

So from Redmond it seems that they are very interested in improving the connection of their equipment and 5G is the option they have in mind:

The future is 5G

We have already talked about 5G on other occasions, a technology that has already shown that it can offer up to more than 7 Gbps in real environmentsand that although it will probably not begin to arrive until 2020 (in Spain we still do not have fully deployed 4G) it is already beginning to gain prominence.

Thus between 4G and 5G we find differences such as the frequencies used, because while in 4G the most common is to use low frequencies, between 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz, in the case of 5G, bands between 26 and 38 GHz have been used. In addition, aspects such as latency would be improved since this new technology is capable of reducing it to values ​​close to a millisecond.

Goodbye SIM, hello eSIM

Regarding the E-SIM, it is about the evolution of the external telephone card, of the SIM, microSIM and NanoSIM that all we know. It is an electronic SIM card that will replace the physical SIM in our mobile phones, tablets, laptops or any other mobile device with connectivity to telephone networks.

In this way, manufacturers save the need to use a SIM card slot while having more space inside the your devices. To obtain coverage or change providers, we will not have to change anything, since the memory of said eSIM will contain the data of the different operators in such a way that the process of being able to change operators will be simplified.

It is clear what Microsoft's idea is and It only remains to wait for it to be put into practice The concept of 5G is already beginning to be more than a reality. And with respect to an idea such as the eSIM, it has been underway for some time and is endorsed by hardware manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony... as well as by various SIM card manufacturers, such as STMicroelectronics, Valid and Oberthur Technologies. , among others.

Via | Softpedia IN Xataka | What is the eSIM, the card called to be the SIM of your future smartphone