Comment by lambada

Your mobile network provider demands you to install an app? Thats… unique in my UK based experience. Over here any provider apps are entirely optional and just a convenience AFAIK; and phones you’ve bought outright (or reached the end of the contract period on) are unlocked (or you have the right to have them unlock it).

Thats why this is a big change and potnetially bad news for many smaller UK operators who don’t currently have eSIM support baked into phones