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The latest focus research from Kaleido Intelligence provides a comprehensive analysis of the future of the eSIM market, assessing the development opportunities and business models for this technology for a number of industry stakeholders. The report considers how specifications for the technology are evolving, in addition to how end customers across consumer and IoT segments are utilising eSIM, and how their expectations are evolving.

2026 represents the first year with significant commercial launches of SGP.32 compliant solutions, which opens up new strategic options and business models for stakeholders. Meanwhile, in the consumer ecosystem, large-scale adoption has been reached in many markets which means that differentiation strategies in terms of onboarding and customer service are increasingly important.

This 31-page concise report provides valuable insight into service provider and end-customer needs and strategies across eSIM ecosystems, while examining evolving regulations and business model opportunities.

Readers will receive the following insights:

• How regulations relevant to eSIM have shifted in key markets
• How eSIM at high scale drives new requirements and approaches from service providers
• How connectivity service providers in different markets and at different stages of eSIM maturity are evolving in terms of requirements and immediate needs
• How orchestration now forms a key part of SGP.32 support, and where strategic opportunities lie across verticals
• Analysis of industry pain points and commercial opportunities for SGP.32 deployments

Access the Report: 

Clients with access to our Data Hub will receive full data including regional and country-level data for all forecast metrics.

Members will be able to access the research directly through the  Member Zone.