Apparatus and methods to transfer user preferences for cellular wireless service associated credentials transferred from a source device to a target device. Transfer of credentials can include physically moving a physical subscriber identity module (SIM) card between devices, transfer of cellular wireless service from a first SIM card at the source device to a second SIM card at the target device, and/or transfer of cellular wireless services for one or more electronic SIMs (eSIMs) from the source device to the target device. Preferences associated with some or all of the transferred SIMs/eSIMs can be applied at the target device when certain matching criteria are satisfied. Exemplary matching criteria include matching identifiers, such as integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) values, mobile station international subscriber directory number (MSISDN) values, and/or mappings thereof. Transfer of preferences can occur via a local peer-to-peer connection, a secure cloud-based service, and/or a backup and restore process.

Systems and methods are provided for providing, by a user equipment, a short message service (SMS) message to initiate Wi-Fi onboarding to a mobile network, receiving, by the user equipment, a binary SMS message including a request for a certificate signing request by a server, generating, by the user equipment, the certificate signing request based on the request for the certificate signing request of the binary SMS message, providing, by the user equipment, the certificate signing request to the mobile network, and receiving, by the user equipment, a binary SMS message including Wi-Fi login data based on the certificate signing request provided to the mobile network.

A method for administering a profile for access to a communication network by using a security module. The security module receives a request to perform an administrative action relating to an access profile originating from an administration entity. The request includes a certificate from the administration entity. The security module verifies that the certificate received is legitimate and that it carries information indicating that the entity is authorised to request the action and, if so, sends an authorisation to perform the action in conjunction with the administration entity. Otherwise, the security module rejects the request.

A method includes identifying a user; obtaining a user profile matched with the identification of the user, wherein the user profile includes SIM data associated with a carrier plan; assigning the SIM data associated with the carrier plan of the obtained user profile to a data communication module to virtually replicate the SIM data of the user; and reverting carrier settings of the data communication module to original settings based on the user no longer being identifiable.

A wireless communication device for establishing two different user equipment (UE) radio access network (RAN) attachments. The wireless communication device comprises an application processor; a baseband processor; a non-transitory memory; a virtual user equipment (UE) application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the application processor as a first virtual UE instance accesses a first eSIM profile stored in the non-transitory memory, establishes a first UE attachment to a radio access network based on credentials accessed from the first eSIM profile, and conducts a first wireless communication session via the first UE attachment, and when executed by the application processor as a second virtual UE application instance accesses a second eSIM profile stored in the non-transitory memory, establishes a second UE attachment to a radio access network based on credentials accessed from the second eSIM profile, and conducts a second wireless communication session via the second UE attachment.

Methods, devices, and system related to wireless communications are disclosed. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communications includes receiving, by a network node in a communication network, a packet associated with a call that has been initiated for a user device, and determining, by the network node, location information carried in a header of the packet. The method also includes determining, by the network node using a mapping between location information and Major Trading Are (MTA) values, a MTA value corresponding to the location information carried in the header, and routing, by the network node based on the MTA value, the packet using a routing path that bypasses a circuit-switched based network.

A terminal device (40) includes a control unit (45). The control unit (45) acquires service information about one or more services provided via a base station apparatus (20). The control unit (45) selects at least one service desired to be used, from among one or more services. The control unit (45) transmits a registration request message including the service selected, to a management device (10A) managing mobility of the terminal device (40) via the base station apparatus (20). The control unit (45) receives, for each service included in the registration request message, reference information about an operating environment of the terminal device (40) requested upon using the service.

According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a communication circuit; a first subscriber identification module (SIM) comprising subscriber identification circuitry and including information for providing a first communication service; a memory; and at least one processor operatively coupled to the communication circuit, the first SIM, and the memory, wherein the memory can store instructions that when executed, cause the at least one processor to: check whether first SIM (SIM) data cached in the memory being valid in association with the information for providing the first communication service of the first SIM at initialization based on the first SIM; perform initialization associated with the first SIM using the first cached SIM data based on the first cached SIM data being valid; and perform initialization based on the first SIM using the first SIM data associated with the information for providing the first communication service from the first SIM based on the first cached SIM data not being valid.

A method and apparatus for updating a radio notification area. The method is applicable to a terminal configured with at least a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a second SIM card, and includes: receiving configuration information sent by a first base station; when the second SIM card is to be handed over to a second base station, sending radio notification area update information of the first SIM card to the second SIM card based on the configuration information in response to that the second base station is located outside a radio notification area configured by the first base station for the first SIM card; and sending, through the second SIM card and to the first base station, a measurement report of handing over to the second base station, wherein the measurement report includes the radio notification area update information of the first SIM card.

An apparatus and a method of wireless communication are provided. The method by a first next generation radio access network (NG-RAN) includes performing, by the first NG-RAN, a non-public network (NPN) cell identification on an access stratum (AS) level for downlink (DL), wherein performing, by the first NG-RAN, the NPN cell identification includes at least one of the followings: wherein a synchronization sequence for NPN can be transmitted in one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) on an initial bandwidth part (BWP) by an NPN cell, wherein in a broadcasting system information on a DL BWP, an NPN identifier (ID) is present in an NPN access related information information element (IE), wherein the DL BWP for NPN is used to transmit an SSB and related system information, or wherein an access class permission is transmitted in system information on the DL BWP for NPN access allowance.