TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to a radio communication equipment using an information card, such as a SIM card, and a method of controlling the same.

BACKGROUND ART

In some radio communication equipment compliant with 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) standards, subscriber Identity Module cards (SIM cards) or user identity module (UIM) cards (hereinafter these are merely referred to as SIM cards) are provided by telecommunications companies (operators or telecommunications companies) and used by being mounted on the radio communication equipment.

The SIM cards are an IC card storing radio communication equipment subscriber (user) information, a service to which the user has subscribed, and the like. The user can use the service to which the user has subscribed, by using a radio communication equipment equipped with a SIM card.

Such a SIM card has been also used for a recent communication module mounted on a vehicle such as an automobile in order to provide a telematics service for providing traffic information, navigation information, and the like (i.e., see Patent Literature 1).

Furthermore, the SIM cards include a removable SIM card and an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM). Although the removable SIM card is used for a general smartphone or the like, the eSIM is used for an in-vehicle or industrial radio communication equipment as well.

The eSIM is a subscriber authentication module storing a profile relating to a subscription to a service provided by a telecommunications company and is usually incorporated in a radio communication equipment. When the user changes the telecommunications company, a new profile is downloaded onto the radio communication equipment, and an old profile is rewritten with the new profile (i.e., see Patent Literature 2).

SUMMARY

A radio communication equipment of this application comprises a controller, and an information card configured to record a profile for using a service provided by a telecommunications company. The controller comprises a switching controller configured to switch the profile recorded on the information card, and an application controller configured to control a profile-compliant application using a service provided by the telecommunications company, in compliant with the profile. The switching controller is configured to read information from a new profile on the information card, when switching to the new profile. The switching controller is configured to notify the application controller of the information read from the new profile The application controller is configured to make the profile-compliant application using the service provided by the telecommunications company usable, based on the new profile.

