Dual-SIM phone setup

[DonJuane]

This is a little humorous reading the Verizon page about eSIM operation. I wonder if they have not ever heard of BLU and other Chinese Android phone mfgs. with the dual SIM slot feature that have been on the market and sold in many different models for nearly a decade. Still their eSIM solution does answer the difficulty of supporting dual SIMs in a single SIM chip phone and thus provides dual carrier support without actually requiring dual SIM slots. Still it does guarantee that they'll be the only provider at least on one-side of any future dual carrier setup. And did you catch the part that stated how unfortunately they could not provide eSIM capability if Verizon had supplied the subject phone (how convenient LOL).

I guess if you are Apple and don't want to change your overall look and feel and you are listening to your customers like the growing number of people who travel and require more than one country plan, this is the only logical way to implement this, as adding a "real" additional SIM slot might not make the grade of the suave aesthetics required to maintain the status of their expensive phone model line.

Anyway from what I've read from the link I shared it sounds like inserting a MoviStar SIM as a second provider in the "physical SIM" slot should give you service but very likely only if Verizon is a partner with MoviStar, which it very well may not be so since the link I provided states that AT&T is the US affiliate. If it's AT&T, it would just come down to the LTE bands that the phone you have supports and if in addition to the Verizon LTE bands, the particular phone you have supports any AT&T LTE bands. And if 4G is not even an option for MoviStar roaming in the USA and 3G is all there is available as far as roaming, then unless that Apple 11 or whatever phone you have supports both CDMA for Verizon but additionally GSM for other standard providers, then MoviStar with only CDMA protocol towers available will not work on a CDMA-only Verizon provisioned phone. Again one would have to look over the phone specs to see what the phone is capable of. None I have seen to date do both CDMA and GSM for 3G activity but I haven't even seen an Apple 11, much less read the spec sheet yet.

Now in contrast to all this, you may be seeing a LTE connection for the physical SIM chip on the Verizon phone that MoviStar had requisitioned. If this is the case, a fix to gain access may be as simple as defining the proper ATN data in the phone configuration for SIM card via the phone settings and this info can normally be found online, but then you'd likely need to use either the ATN data defined for MoviStar of Mexico or if that doesn't work, the ATN data provided by AT&T for MoviStar when roaming in the US. Search for (perhaps) "MoviStar US roaming ATN data". But this is only if you see a LTE signal indicated for your physical SIM chip and the phone still won't provide connection.