It has been rumored that Apple would produce iPhone terminals that would no longer allow the insertion of SIM cards, and here is the first patent related to this technology has been sent by the company for registration. Apple presents an iPhone terminal in which the SIM card would not take place, but the device would allow users to buy a subscription directly from the terminal. Of course, the devices would also allow the identification of a subscriber based on information provided by the operator so that the iPhone can connect to the network and have available all the options of an existing subscription.
Apple states that it would be desirable to be able to provide improved ways in which to provide users with the ability to purchase and use wireless network services without the need of a SIM Card. The secondary benefit of switching to a Virtual SIM Card, Apple states, is that it will improve security while allowing Jony Ive and his team to do what they do best: Design an ever thinner, astonishingly beautiful, next generation iPhone.
The system from Apple is very complicated, it is far from being used on a large scale and describes the possible use of NFC technology to identify a subscriber. Basically, Apple wants to completely change the way a mobile phone interacts with a mobile phone operator's network, but the efforts of those from Apple must be supported by the operators, otherwise everything is in vain. I for one would be extremely happy if Apple would give up SIM cards and allow me to set my subscription directly from the terminal, and as a bonus I would have a thinner device without a SIM slot.
