Telecom Subscriber Management › SIM & eSIM Lifecycle Management
SIM & eSIM Lifecycle Management
BC-2640.20
Level 2
Telecommunications
13 providers
30 API surfaces
4 rated strong or better
Lifecycle management of physical SIM cards and eSIM profiles including personalisation, distribution, swap, and replacement.
SIM & eSIM Lifecycle Management (BC-2640.20) is a level-2 business capability under Telecom Subscriber Management in the Telecommunications model. The catalog holds 30 API surface(s) from 13 provider(s) that can perform some part of it, 4 of them rated strong or better. Reach is the vendor surface that lands on this capability — it is not a claim about what any particular organisation has deployed.
Where this capability definition comes from.
This capability is part of a published business-architecture model that API Evangelist
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Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet — Turbo EA, https://github.com/vincentmakes/turbo-ea-capabilities, CC BY 4.0
Changes: Consolidated from 333 per-L1 YAML files into one JSON; English only (upstream i18n/ omitted); descriptions whitespace-normalised. No capability was added, removed, renamed or re-parented.
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Sub-capabilities
Physical SIM Provisioning BC-2640.20.10
Personalisation and distribution of physical SIM cards.
no catalog coverage
eSIM Profile Management BC-2640.20.20
Management of eSIM profiles via SM-DP+, SM-SR, and equivalent platforms.
no catalog coverage
Profile Swap & Replacement BC-2640.20.30
Swap and replacement of subscriber SIM and eSIM profiles, including fraud-aware flows.
no catalog coverage
Providers that reach this capability
Ordered by rating band. Reach means a provider publishes an API surface that can perform
some part of this capability — it is not a claim that any particular
organisation has deployed it.
Exemplar
2
Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong
2
Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing
4
Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin
5
Limited public surface area
This page carries no rating. Capabilities are not rated. A capability is a description of what a business does, not a thing a company publishes, so a Kin Score would have nothing to measure.
The edge table is a Pro feature.
This page shows
which providers and tags reach SIM & eSIM Lifecycle Management. The underlying
tag → capability edges — each with the quoted fragment of the provider's own
OpenAPI that evidences it, a calibrated confidence score, and the contract-provenance gate
it passed — are available through the API, along with company-level capability maps.
Only edges at confidence ≥ 0.7 with evidence found verbatim in
the source contract are published at all.
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