SIM card

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SIM Card

n acronym for
(Telecommunications) subscriber identity module card: a small card used in a mobile phone to store data about the network, telephone number, etc
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carte SIM

SIM card

[ˈsɪmˌkɑːd] N =Subscriber Identity Module cardtarjeta f SIM
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- Mobile penetration rates will increase in most countries, and will only decline in Cambodia and Malaysia due to a fall in multi-SIM ownership
Because you can only use one SIM at any given point in time, you should have multi-SIM service to use two or more SIMs with the same mobile number simultaneously with different devices.
Secondly, does this figure also take into account multi-SIM usage?
Also, in a market flush with multi-SIM handsets, some of those who were sympathetic to the resistance movement still retained an active Safaricom signal even after making competitor networks their primary service providers.
Users are able to make voice calls directly on their smartwatch, without having a smartphone nearby (multi-SIM).
It will be 3G/4G migration that will drive growth, although some multi-SIM ownership will persist.
Tango Networks' unique approach to Mobile UC provides service parity with wireless operator Mobile VPN and Multi-SIM offerings and is fully compatible with both 4G IMS VoLTE and 3G UMTS networks.
Mobile subscription growth is strong as a result of the move to 3G, but market volatility continues to be problematic due to price competition and the high incidence of multi-SIM ownership.
"The country is more than 99% prepaid and most of them are multi-sim and dual sim, so when people cannot afford it they start getting rid of their excess sims, whether from the same operation or different operations," Elfatih says.
On the prepaid segments, revenues grew 3% year-on-year despite the continued pressures on yields brought about by the shift from pay-per-use to value-based bucket and unlimited offers and the pervasiveness of multi-SIM incidence in the market.
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