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Something rather interesting was announced during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, but it managed to fly completely under the radar. We’re talking about the rSIM, the “world’s first resilient and intelligent SIM card”.
rSIM is the world’s first resilient SIM card
This card was announced in partnership with Deutsche Telekom IoT and Tele2 IoT. As I said, it was announced at MWC 2024, so about a month ago, but the info is now reaching news outlets.
The ‘r’ in ‘rSIM’ stands for ‘resilient’. Therefore, the name of rSIM is officially Resilient SIM. It has been introduced by CSL group, in partnership with the two telecom giants mentioned in the previous paragraph.
This new SIM card is designed to improve network reliability, basically. It integrates two independent communication profiles, which is not the case with a regular SIM card. This basically allows for an automatic switch to an alternative network in the case of a connection failure or something like that.
You’re getting dual SIM capabilities inside a single SIM card
Some of you are probably saying to yourself, but that’s what dual SIM is here for. Well, yes, kind of. The thing is, you’re getting that functionality inside a single SIM card here, which is an advantage. You need only one slot for it.
So, you could, technically, use two of these SIM cards, and have four different telecom providers on your dual SIM smartphone. That’s not a use case for regular folk, but still, it’s pretty interesting.
There are two levels of resilience rSIM offers
The whole point of this is to “reduce the risk of outages by switching to a backup mobile operator profile if an outage is detected”. The company says that the SIM offers two levels of resilience, kind of. It enables seamless roaming outside of your home country, as well as “proactive solution for uninterrupted internet access”.
If you’re wondering when will rSIM become widely available, well, that won’t happen this year. A development of a version compatible with SGP.32 standards is expected next year. We’re not even sure this will see wide availability just yet, but it probably will.