Will hAP AX lite LTE6 have eSIM support? It seems like a great travel router, but without eSIM support it is much more limited in its appeal (it’s very easy to buy eSIMs online, can be very tricky and time-consuming to buy physical SIMs in each country one visits).
Thanks!
I’ve not read anything on this but that doesn’t mean Mikrotik are thinking about it. I’ve got the same router which I tend to use for outside events so physical SIM isn’t too much of a hassle. But I can see that this would be a useful feature. Especially as the hAP ax lite LTE6 can run off a USB-C battery pack. The big one I have for fast charging my Redmi Note Pro 12 phone can run the hAP for 8 hours. I was half surprised but shouldn’t have been considering it’s relatively low power requirements. It’s therefore a great device for running credit card readers at outside events where the power could fail.
Hooks are present in ROS7 but the required chip in ax lite lte most likely not.
Unless it can be done 100% in SW ?
Support for e-sim is in the works, but it will only work on the new hardware with an added dedicated chip, see:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/esim-in-7-18rc/182138/1
So, maybe there will be a hap Ax lite LTEx refresh (or mark II or e-sim edition or whatever name the marketing department of Mikrotik will come out with in order to better confuse customers) with the needed hardware or maybe not.
For existing devices there are possible workarounds, like esim.me or 5ber:
https://esim.me/
http://esim.5ber.com
but you need an android device and the app to manage the actual esims, and the compatibility with Mikrotik (or Quectel) devices is not guaranteed.
There is also this one, that allows managing on windows/Linux through a reader:
https://www.estk.me/
but it is at the moment focused seemingly on Asia only.
Ohh harsh but probably true 
Not that Mikrotik is alone is confusing rebrands. I came across an entire website dedicated to the Microsoft’s renaming of the M365 stack.
Sure, never said that they were particularly “bad” at that, it is common to many if not all marketing departments, the story of the marketing department of Sirius Cybernetics:
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation
was intended to be something to reflect upon and ultimately avoid doing, not as a practical lesson on what to do, which is how the marketing guys seemingly understood it.
The similarities between GPP and the fuzz about - say - Alexa yesterday and AI today are strikingly IMHO.