NRF9160: eSIM support for India Service Provider

[ErDarshan]

Hi,

I am receiving NRF9160 board. Please let me know if we need to change anything to support India Bands. Also it will be great if you can share Indian service provider details which are supporting eSIM and NRF9160.

[helsing]

Hi Dharshan, 

You may use SIMs from Reliance Jio, as well as from others like Airtel and Vodafone Idea. Please contact the service providers directly. 

Bands 3,5 and 8, which are available in India, are all supported by us, as according to the nRF9160-Certifications overview.

You may also contact our local RSM, Gaurav  Kapoor: [email protected] 

Best regards, 

Håkon

[ErDarshan]

Hi Helsing,

Thanks for your response. I have received NRF9160-DK. I have inserted 4G enabled SIM of vodafone and on LTE Link Monitor, it shows searching everytime.

I have seen many posts and all tells that in India no SIM is supported as NB-IoT and LTE-CAT-M1 is not supported in India.

Can you guide me how I can set-up NRF9160 in India?

[Gaurav Kapoor]

Darshan you need an NBIOT qualified SIM from any of the service providers first to kick start any workings thanks Gaurav

[ErDarshan]

Hi Gaurav,

We are in Ahmedabad, Gujarat where NBIoT is also not deployed. Will NBIoT qualified SIM works for our location?
DO you have any preference for NBIoT SIM provider?

[Gaurav Kapoor]

Hi Darshan , no sorry about this but you need to source the NBIOT SIM from your side. You need to contact the service providers and ask them 

tks

Gaurav

[ErDarshan]

No issue. We will connect with the service provider.

One more query, will NBIoT qualified SIM works for the Ahmedabad, Gujarat location?

[Gaurav Kapoor]

Yes will work for any Location in India , your service provider can do all those tower support things

thanks