Does anyone have any experience getting any of the eSIM devices working in the United States, specifically, on the US AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon networks?
Your first problem is that I'm not sure there is any eSIM-ready MikroTik LTE/5G device that has bands that support North America. What modem and router are you using?
That’s exactly my question – any e-sim models work in North American (i.e., with North American cell service providers).
Or are you stating that there the answer is “no?”
AFAIK, none of the new models have the common bands used by AT&T and T-Mobile. Now older device like Chateau LTE6-US support the right bands, but they require some physical eSIM (and also dated thus slower than modern devices) to use a eSIM (at which point it be likely easier to just use a physical SIM from carrier)
Verizon has the additional problem that no MikroTik LTE/5G device are certified, so Verizon will not activate a SIM (physical or eSIM) since they white-list certified device (and MikroTik are not in whitelist). Now you can "swap" already activated physical SIM to "trick" Verizon (since VZW checks IMEI is allowed on activation so you can use old phone IMEI to get a line then move the SIM) - but you cannot do that with eSIM since the lack of certification would block eSIM activation.
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Got it, thanks. This is how it’s been but I was hoping it changed.