esim on Vodacom iPhone

[hie]

Hello, Can anyone confirm if an iPhone (13 mini) bought from Vodacom can have the esim activated (using Cell C in my case)?
I'm not sure if Vodacom locks the esim capabilities on their phones or not.

 

[mikewazar]

Vodacom does not lock the eSIM

 

[AinsleyHarriott]

Sorry for hijacking thread, but why does MTN tell me I can't get eSIM.

I got this response a while ago: "Kindly be informed that Sales/Activation/Swap of e-SIMs has been suspended with immediate effect as we have reached the approved capacity by NCC."

 

[hie]

Vodacom does not lock the eSIM

Thanks for that. Will now be going for it then....

 

[mikewazar]

Thanks for that. Will now be going for it then....

Good luck getting them to activate it tho. Mention eSIM and watch their faces turn confused.

 

[hie]

Good luck getting them to activate it tho. Mention eSIM and watch their faces turn confused.

I don't need them to activate it. I have an esim from cellC. I'm just hoping the phone I get from Vodacom will have an active esim. I'm hoping that if I scan the QR Code the phone will activate the line

 

[DarkWing1977]

I don't need them to activate it. I have an esim from cellC. I'm just hoping the phone I get from Vodacom will have an active esim. I'm hoping that if I scan the QR Code the phone will activate the line

Hi Mike,
Can you confirm whether you were able to load the Cell C e-Sim with the Vodacom physical sim and that they worked? Can the e-sim be a data only sim… TIA

 

[ChazySA]

Hi Guys,

Sorta-kinda resurrecting this thread...

I have a use case where I have my QR Code from Vodacom but when I scan it asks me for a "Confirmation Code". Does anyone know what this is because Vodacom clearly doesn't (Apparently an OTP to device but have not received any).

 

[ph4t3]

@ChazySA did you figure this out? I’m in the same boat.

 

[BlueCrayon]

Go in store ( phone and ask if they do it first, some don't ) The staff there will be able to help, took me 5 minutes and my E-sim just for data was up and running. I was fortunate enough to get a nice guy at the Vodacom at Brackenfell Centre, he wasn't lazy and clueless unlike 90% of Vodacom staff.

 

[ph4t3]

My issue is that I’ve received the QR code via mail. But no confirmation code via SMS. And my physical sim has already lost signal.

 

[dinky1972]

I had to wait 3 days for the confirmation code as i was doing a sim swap to e-sim on iphone. Vodacom sent the code to the number that i was sim swapping. Of course no SMS. They eventually woke up and e-mailed it. Even going into the a store won't help, as the Confirmation code is blanked out.

 

[ph4t3]

Yep I tried to call the call centre but yeah it’s masked to the call centre. Will wait a couple of days. Thanks.