E SIM cards

ThatFragranceGuy said:
For the small cost of a local sim or a roaming data add on id much rather have data access than be stuck with hotel WiFi in the morning and night. I'm not glued to my phone but it certainly makes the holiday better being able to see what is around you.

Example in Malaga I quickly took charge of checking out food places to go to after my brothers tried to take us to some tourist trap cafe we were passing. Out of 2064 restaurants in Malaga they managed to pick the one ranked 2064th.

You also have live access to public transport routing, translation, taxi apps and whatever else you need.

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That's like every restaurant on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, everything about that street is a trap
 
SmallTown said:
No it doesn't work like that. Bith sims are active at the same time. I have dual sim running right now, ok both physical sims but I could also have an esim set up too. You choose which is your primary sim for texts, for calls and for data but both can receive calls and texts at the same time. It's really quite clever. The only thing I would say though is you need to consider battery life. Especially if you're travelling in a patchy signal zone. Constantly searching for two different signals does hammer the battery
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Ah right, that does sound good. Good to know, thanks for the info.

Can you buy those in advance if you went to the Caribbean or something, or can you just pick one up when you're there and add it to your phone when you're there?

How does that work for tethering, can you tether a laptop to a phone which is dual simd?

What I use works really well mind (the mifi, it's tiny and light and battery last ages), and there's no real risks to it of some £700 bills which I've had a few times when had my phone setup wrong for roaming etc! I would be crapping my pants tethering my work laptop, e-mail and google drive to my phone these days. A couple of hours of that being set up wrong and I would be bankrupt :LOL:
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I posted a thread in July regarding not being able to use my EE mini in France. We come over for eight weeks and need the WiFi for banking, etc. EE wanted £10 per week roaming charge on top of the £44 I had paid for 90 days coverage. I finally got round this by buying an Orange Pret a surfer which costs me 40€ for 35GB.

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That's a bit like mine, but mine's credit card sized, and about as thick as a phone. Can't tell how big that one is?

Is that locked to one network? I can put any sim in mine I think.
 
Within Europe and a few more countries (USA, Australie etc) o2 don't charge for roaming.
I have a D-link 5g mobile router which is brill. Perversely, I have just gone with ee for that, as I use it in the UK predominantly and I get 50bg of data for about £10.50, whereas O2 is more expensive year round ... I figured that it worked out cheaper overall to just pay the £2 a day roaming charge when I am abroad.

My mate is looking at starlink for his place in Sweden .... but that's for house internet, although they are portable ... ie you could cart it around in your car.
 
Andy_W said:
Ah right, that does sound good. Good to know, thanks for the info.

Can you buy those in advance if you went to the Caribbean or something, or can you just pick one up when you're there and add it to your phone when you're there?

How does that work for tethering, can you tether a laptop to a phone which is dual simd?

What I use works really well mind (the mifi, it's tiny and light and battery last ages), and there's no real risks to it of some £700 bills which I've had a few times when had my phone setup wrong for roaming etc! I would be crapping my pants tethering my work laptop, e-mail and google drive to my phone these days. A couple of hours of that being set up wrong and I would be bankrupt :LOL:
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You usually have to buy when you're there. I always do. Because it'll activate to the network straight away. Tethering works as normal on a phone. You can set your phone up as a hotspot, connect to your laptop and it'll use the esim to connect to the internet. Again though, battery life is a killer here as your phone now has to use it's radios for two sim cards and a wireless hotspot. I always carry a small battery pack on holidays. Especially as I then use my phone for a camera too.

I feel you on the connection thing. I once connected my work phone to a mobile hotspot and, unbeknownst to me, it synced my cloud drive which was GB worth of data. The bill was horrific
 
Andy_W said:
That's a bit like mine, but mine's credit card sized, and about as thick as a phone. Can't tell how big that one is?

Is that locked to one network? I can put any sim in mine I think.
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The size of the Orange device is similar to what you describe (credit card) and it is slim as an IPhone.

I would guess it is tied into Orange only but I don’t mind that due to coming out to France for 8 weeks each summer.
 
Just be careful if you use a UK sim abroad that includes roaming as the vast majority have a 25gb fair usage policy and if you go over this you will get absolutely slammed it's about 13 pounds per GB if you go over and above!!
 
I need a SIM card suitable for Peru for November. Off to do Machu Picchu. Any suggestions?
 
I've used Airalo when I have been over in the States.
A little bit of a pig to set up, which was probably my inexperience with am E-sim on an iPhone.
However, once it is set up it is a breeze to top up and it stays on the phone forever (unless you delete it).
You can then choose the international zone you will be travelling in so no need to keep installing.

www.airalo.com

Local and regional eSIMs for travellers - Airalo

Data packs with local rates. Manage your eSIMs and top-up on the go with Airalo.
www.airalo.com www.airalo.com
 
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