A Secret Sim Switching Technique to Adapt the Upcoming Technology Trends

Abstract

A Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) is responsible for initiating calls and managing data. Besides several benefits, a physical SIM also creates issues like personal data privacy and barriers to the frequent travelers. To mitigate the aforesaid concerns, the proposed system designs a convenient software (mobile application) based virtual SIM. The proposed system facilitates data secrecy along with already available services currently provided by the network providers. This study also conceptualizes a Secret SIM Manager (SSM) that can effectively provide features like calling from a hidden or random number. Main stakeholders of this SSM are user side mobile devices (application host), intermediate mobile network operators and network operator servers. Finally, the study demonstrates a complete use-case scenario and thought analysis to evaluate the feasibility of our proposed system. Online communication has increased a lot during this Covid19 situation which leads to unwanted data breach too. This study magnificently reduces the phone number breach (especially for minorities) incidents and the other issues generated by physical SIMs.