eSIM Asterisk (FreePBX)

Good afternoon everyone, please tell me whether it is possible to bind an eSim to Asterisk (or FreePBX) to receive and make calls and what is needed for this?

No. Maybe some outside gateway supports it, but Asterisk itself does not.

On Saturday 18 January 2025 at 21:37:16, DavidSt via Asterisk Community wrote:

please tell me whether it is possible to bind an eSim to Asterisk (or
FreePBX) to receive and make calls and what is needed for this?

You need some piece of hardware which can use an eSIM, and you need a channel
driver for Asterisk which supports this hardware.

I am aware of chan_dongle which is unsupported, no longer developed, and not
part of the offical Asterisk source code (but certainly does still work), which
can use many USB “dongles” with real SIM cards.

I have no idea whether it supports any hardware which can use eSIMs, but
that’s probably a good enough starting point to find out what Asterisk might be
able to use.

Other than that, you should investigate any manufacturer of eSIM to SIP
gateway devices.

Antony


Suggesting that the universe could not exist if any of several “magic
numbers”, such as the gravitational constant or the speed of light, were even
a tiny bit different is like saying that a car cannot work if you change the
thread of the wheelnuts. All you have to do is change the thread of the bolts
as well.

Is it possible to use a smartphone to convert sim to sip and further use it in Asterisk

I’m having problems connecting my SIM through the gateway due to the fact that my provider only issues a local IP address

SIM and SIP are completely different sorts of things. Converting from one to another doesn’t make sense. A SIM is a subscriber identity module, and is about authentication, and permissions. SIP is session initiation protocol, and is about setting up VoIP calls.

The dongles mentioned convert SIP to mobile phone air interface protocols, they take SIMs, but only as means to identify the subscriber.