India to be global hub for manufacturing eSIMs with IDEMIA's help

French company plans to make Noida plant one of its largest production units

With leading French augmented identity and SIM (subscriber identity module) card maker IDEMIA deciding to make India a global hub for manufacturing embedded SIMs, there will soon be a little bit of India in many mobile phones across the world.
 
Embedded SIM (eSIM) is the next generation technology where an integrated circuit card is embedded in a mobile device, enabling consumers to change their networks remotely or through a QR code rather than waiting to get a SIM delivered physically.
 
IDEMIA, with revenues of 2.3 billion euros, is building its eSIM manufacturing capacity across the world, and has