Africell, the leading GSM provider on Friday launched another new innovation, an eSim card.<\/p>\n
This new eSim card is an electronically embedded SIM card which will not be physically seen or touched like the current ones but works similarly or even more efficiently.<\/p>\n
The launching was held at their head office along Kairaba Avenue.<\/p>\n
Musa Sise of the directorate of cooperate affairs and media consultant said the new development is a novelty, adding that so far only Africell\u2019s network supports the eSim in this country.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact there are very few networks using it around the globe.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn The Gambia and West Africa, only Africell network supports the eSIM\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
He added that eSIMs have the potential to eliminate roaming charges abroad as it will also enable people to switch operators quickly to get connected if they\u2019re in an area with no signal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt frees up space for new features or additional battery life and could lower the risk of device theft among other things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hussein Diab Ghanem, operations director said The Gambia is a special place and the first of the Africell group\u2019s company operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we started the Gambia was considered to be the smallest but the amount of data we pumped in the Gambia now surpasses the other places we operate in Congo and Sierra Leone, suggesting that Gambia is even more ready to move into high tech future than we realized,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This, he said has taught them never to underestimate, but always look ahead and always be ahead of their competitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe eSim is something that is going to get rid of the physical sim card.<\/p>\n
We are looking into the future because we should not underestimate where technology is going to lead us,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
Currently it works only on some types of phones such as IPhone XR, XS and XS Max as well as the Pixel phones.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever we are sure that it is only a matter of time before it will become common place as more and more phones are made to accept it ,\u201d Musa Sise said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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