Permanent roaming is becoming an increasingly important topic for many organizations dealing with global IoT deployments based on secure roaming IoT SIM cards. We notice this in particular in the number of questions that were received in the past quarter regarding permanent roaming. It plays a role in several countries, for example in Brazil and Turkey. The first country to actively oppose permanent roaming and actually block simcards is Turkey.
The regulations in a country may prohibit both devices and simcards that are registered in another country from permanently roaming. Sometimes the rules are explicitly against permanent roaming and in other cases the rules are based on local registration requirements or tax obligations. Regulators are often motivated to protect the local market. The ban on permanent roaming is not only determined by governments, but operators are also working on this. In Turkey, the ban is a government regulation and in the US and Canada, for example, operators themselves prohibit their roaming partners from allowing devices to roam permanently on their networks.