Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Daesoo Park

Jinwoo Lee

Yongbeom Kwon

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.

Electronic device and method for using cached data based on subscriber identification information in electronic device

Various embodiments relate to a method and an electronic device for installing a subscriber profile. The method includes obtaining network operator-related information. The method also includes identifying whether download of an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile is allowed based on the network operator-related information. The method further includes downloading the eSIM profile when download of the eSIM profile is allowed.

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