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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2023
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Jan Grießbach, Hamburg, DE;
Till Steffen Witt, Bremen, DE;
Javier Velasquez Gomez, Hamburg, DE;
Nicolas Harmen Lehment, Munich, DE;
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to switching SIMs in a mobile telecommunications device based on geographic location. Example embodiments disclosed include a method of operating a mobile telecommunications device having a first SIM and a second SIM, the method comprising: identifying a geographic location of the device; operating the device using the first SIM to connect to a first network if the device is within a first geographic location; and operating the device using the second SIM to connect to a second network if the device is within a second geographic location and if a received signal strength indicator, RSSI, of the second network is greater than a predefined threshold value.