topic Re: Activate Esim without text? in SIM cards & Porting

Activate Esim without text?

jellen1780 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:02:08 GMT

Hi,

Currently on Holiday and would like to activate an esim as the actual sim is on our boat. I don't have access to the EE phone number to receive the one time text and my mobile with O2 doesn't have any signal. Is there any way to activate the esim without the text?

Thanks

Re: Activate Esim without text?

bristolian — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:17:58 GMT

You'd need to contact EE-CS via either another working phone, or a web-calling app such as Skype.

Re: Activate Esim without text?

Chris_B — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:57:16 GMT

@jellen1780 if you’re outside the UK I highly recommend you do not do this. Should you go ahead and try and do this your EE could end up with no signal and the eSIM might not activate if you’re using a roaming network. SIM cards do not active on roaming networks. A eSIM is just a electronic SIM card