Among the vendors seeing promise in SGP.32 is Aeris, a cellular connectivity platform provider that expects the eSIM standard to create an iPhone-like moment for the IoT market by making it seamless to switch IoT devices between different wireless carriers.
Nov. 25, 2025 –
A new standard for remotely connecting IoT devices with eSIM technology is poised to open new opportunities for solution providers as vendors create new pathways for growth.
Among these vendors is Aeris, a San Jose, Calif.-based cellular connectivity platform provider that expects the SGP.32 standard to create an iPhone-like moment for the IoT market by making it seamless to switch IoT devices between different wireless carriers.
“What this is going to do is shift the power balance away from the carrier and more towards the enterprise,” said Jon Connet, chief product officer of Aeris, in an interview with CRN.
Connet anticipates this power shift because of how the SGP.32 standard overcomes a previous limitation that only allowed devices with eSIMs—short for embedded SIMs, which contain subscriber information for cellular plans—to switch between carriers that were integrated at a technology layer called SM-DP+, which is important for remote SIM provisioning.
This previous limitation was due to the earlier SGP.02 standard, where customers have to approach their current operator “and tell them that you want to move to another carrier” if the two carriers are integrated, according to Connet. However, he added, carriers are “not super incentivized to have a broad range of those integrations.”
SGP.32, on the other hand, enables platforms like Aeris to “enable that switch out of the box for the customer without any friction from the carrier,” Connet said.
With seamless carrier switching, Aeris envisions a future in which its cellular connectivity platform acts as a marketplace where a partner or customer can buy IoT services from the providers of their choosing and pair those with connectivity offerings from different carriers depending on business and geographical requirements, according to the executive.