Any news on eSIMs in Ireland?

VodafoneZiggo is a Dutch telco joint venture between Liberty & Vodafone Group. Might utilise a dutch esim that allows roaming amongst any of their partners for a connectivity solution - Im sure someone can give a far better technical explanation that me.

Not unusual for a product to utilise a sim service based in another EU country. Tesla use a dutch physcial sim in all of their in UK & Ireland cars.

Three Esim is launched Ireland.

So the currents networks that offer eSim in Ireland are Three, Vodafone, Sky and Lyca? Wonder has eir/GoMo any plans to launch them

watchOS support has been added to Three's carrier bundle in iOS 18.3 Beta 1

<key>RemoteCardProvisioningSettings</key>
<dict>
    <key>MatchingICCIDPrefixes</key>
    <array>
        <string>8935302</string>
    </array>
    <key>MinCompatibleWatchOS</key>
    <string>11.2</string>
    <key>SupportedSKUs</key>
    <array>
        <string>SKU_EU</string>
    </array>
</dict>

Full details for those interested:

Running 18.3 Beta on my phone and watch, just checked the app and it said i could sign up. Clicked on the page, but get a "Service is currently unavailable" error page… Let's hope its enabled sometimegot soon…

Even if they did have plans to, the support agents would not be informed until they were trained in for a launch. They absolutely aren't getting updated on stuff like that unless it's very much about to launch.

three…

Are there any technical reasons why eir won't release eSim? Or are they just up to the eircom ways of old and can't be arsed?

Jaysus, remember when there'd be a charge for a replacement sim? I remember Meteor used to charge a tenner for it! Nowadays it seems they all reserve the right to charge but in practice never do. Or at least that's been my experience with all 3 main networks

on topic, but slightly on a different direction, I find the Saily eSIM fantastic for travel, there are others, but most look for a copy off your passport or other documents, none of that with Saily

Keepgo is the cheapest eSim I've found for using in as a stopgap in my Samsung Watch 6 until Three sort their sh1t out. It's about 2euro for the first GB (and gets cheaper) but crucially there's no expiry date so if you only want to leave your phone at home occasionally it costs next to nothing to keep recieving WhatsApps, emails etc.