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Remote SIM provisioning - the organic revolution in mobile communications



In February of this year, the GSM Association, which includes more than 800 mobile operators and 250 companies of the mobile ecosystem, adopted the standard (specification) of the Remote SIM provisiong, which changes the technology for providing mobile communication services and business models for the consumption of these services. What happened and will happen with the transition to the standard?

Specification

Remote SIM Provisioning is a specification adopted by the GSMA that allows consumers to remotely and independently connect SIM cards installed in wearable devices (smartphone, tablet, smart watches, fitness bracelets, etc.) to different operators.
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Prerequisites


The beginning of the creation of the specification was announced in the summer of 2014. In February 2016 the creation of the specification is completed .

History of creation

Initially, the specification was planned to be created only for m2m devices, but in December 2015, the specification began to be extended to user wearable devices. Also, amendments were made on the right of independent service providers to transfer commands for loading SIM profiles into devices, and the ability to store arrays of profiles in independent certified data centers (Subscriptions manager) was allowed. The documentation for the specification is available on request on the GSM Association website (GSMA).

Tectonic shifts

Obviously and clearly, the development of a standard will affect the change in the pattern of consumption of mobile communication services - the user himself will choose with which operator he will be able to make decisions about the transition then (always best connected concept) when he will need such a transition — not satisfied with the quality of services, prices, departure from the home region.

Things are easy - waiting for the proposal to be formulated by the mobile operators themselves (placing the offer in the marketplaces and at the service providers), using the vendors' specifications of mobile and wearable devices, IoT, Connect Drive developers and MVNO. The latter will be able to integrate the rates of the service provider into their products - for example, the MVNO subscriber goes on vacation and receives an offer of additional tariffs from his virtual operator. As for vendors of wearable devices, using the specification in their decisions they will be able to a) make their products global and not tied to any one mobile operator b) reduce the cost of owning such devices for the consumer.

As potential partners, we at omfortWay also consider the developers of OSS / BSS solutions and MVNE , with which integration at the module level of the software platform is possible, which I will discuss in the following posts.

Implementation

To date, only our company announced the implementation of the specification. While in open sources there is no information about the implementation of the standard by someone else. The client product was CwSim, which I already wrote about . We cooperate with 40 operators in 140 countries of the world, whose services we provide to users “on demand”. Several local MVNOs will soon have our offer for their traveling subscribers in the product line.

Case of RSP implementation - carrier agnostic SIM CwSim for travelers


How it works

RSP Ecosystem Members

The interaction of participants


Lecture by Oleg Pravdin, the founder of ComfortWay, about Remote SIM provisioning standard


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