When you used the e-sim, could you still get calls and text to your US phone. So if someone texts or calls your regular number did it come through when using the airlo e-sim?
@@Zaclauck we used Airlalo for data only. We did not receive texts. We made phone calls using Facebook Messenger. I am planning to try WhatsApp in May, along with Aralo.
Hi @thefletcher53 ! Can you answer the question from 3 months ago? Was it your US phone number or a different # given to you? Wondering how it would work if bank/email/etc requires you to answer a text message with login code as is very common these days. Thank you.
Local eSim unlimited data on my dual Sim primary phone, which then becomes my hotspot for the laptop and tablet for YT content downloads/uploads, banking, emails, comms with home.... A physical Sim, with reasonable data and, obviously, voice/text cellular for my out and about "burner" phone that I've preloaded with the essential local apps. No sensitive content on this cheap one, so if its lost/stolen, no big. I've been in an international career for a few decades (yes, I'm an old guy) and I've found this to work well for me. 😊
I'm using the Verizon plan for $10/day. For a week that's the best option. I am leery of using public WiFi because i was scammed for thousands of dollars while visiting Scotland. Thanks for the no roaming turn-off. I never would have thought of that. Love your videos.
Personally, for the simplicity Verizon travel pass is very easy and just 7 days isn’t crazy expensive. I’ve used it many times. Something like an E-Sim will be cheaper.
Hi Cynthia, we're headed to Scotland this Friday! I'm sorry to hear about your WiFi issue - I use a VPN when on public wifi. I was about to turn on the Verizon $10/day plan (my daughter's used it before), and my friend said check T-mobile - includes international. We did through Costco, and we get Scotland for free (data/text, not voice)! Our monthly costs less, and they are paying off our iphones from Verizon. (I don't work for T-Mobile or Costco! 😉)
1. Turn off roaming on your main sim 2. Turn on wifi calling on your main sim. This will allow you to use wifi for calling at home where reception is poor or abroad. Test this now. 3. When abroad or before, get a prepaid eSim or a local sim for the country you are traveling to (requires an unlocked dual-sim phone / iPhone Xs or later). The second sim needs to have roaming on. 4. When abroad switch data to second sim. Using wifi or data on the second sim, you can use your main number for calling and texts.
I have never used an eSim and I am now confused. Why do I have to turn on roaming on the eSIM? When you switch to the eSim, does your phone not automatically connect to the WiFi network in the country you are visiting? I was just planning on using WhatsApp overseas, just texting. Thanks in advance for the education.
Forget e sim it will close the us numper you must call Verizon upon return it will take you 4 hours to connect again , operators don’t know how to do it
I do that but they close completely the first sim Upon my return took me two days to connect again plus worries , I will lose my number Next time I will buy a cheap second phone with regular sim
Newer iphones no longer have the option for the physical SIM card. Learned this the hard way last year after I bought a physical one and there was no where to put it in the phone. I ended up doing Holafly. Going to Malawi next month, and the eSIM is unfortunately significantly more expensive than their local SIM card from the lilongwe airport ($80 for 30 days 15 gb vs $15 for 65gb)
I think if you are going to use wifi, you should probably also use a VPN, correct?? I also use an old phone so I can use another SIM card for that very reason if need be. I never trade my old phones in.
Going to Thailand on the 23 oct,moving from alabama ,I have metro pcs now, so you said get a e sim card,guess I can use to contact the usa anytime too,let to hear your invites too
I'm researching what the best option would be as a pilot flying internationally. Starting at a new airline soon, looking at options. I wonder if Starlink would be a viable option. Would give me the added benefit of having signal camping when needed.
how did you use Google Fi for 6 months when they have a 90 day international limit? When I spoke to them 90 days was it, unless you went back to the US for a week in between.
I was in Europe for three weeks recently and the E-Sim work perfectly but... 1. Don´t EVER get it in an airport (It will cost you more that double) en 2. Don´t buy ORANGE. They will charge you an extra if you want to stay in touch with LATAM counties and, more important, it will not work in Italy and probably neither in some other european countries. 3. If you don´t have a double sim phone, you can replace it temporarelly but take very well care of you original card. Believe me, you don´t want to loos it or leave it in you documented lugage. You´re going to need it on your way back.
If you are out of the US for more than 90 days, Google fi is not an option. Here is their warning: Extent of use: If the majority of your usage occurs outside of the United States over a consecutive 90-day period, we will suspend your international data (your account stays active). You can avoid a suspension by returning to the US for at least a week. You’ll receive a warning email and notification in the Fi app 30 days before suspension.
I am travelling to one country only in the EU for about a month. If I buy a local SIM card and turn off my own roaming ( when I don't have wifi), does my phone continue to do everything that it does at home without having to make changes.? eg. local calls , whatsapp, internet. contacts etc. Depending on the foreign card, I understand that making calls and texts to my home country would likely involve some kind of extra charge, If I want to make a call or text to my home country, will turning on my own data or using wifi overide the foreign SIM card so that I get a rate that is included in my home plan? thanks for any info. Your video is very informative and well put together!
travelling internationally, have the Verizon International (where I bank a day a month prior to my travel) but not happy about spending $10 per day for those days I am out of my banked days. Love the e-sim option...do you have a video about obtaining say 17 days for multiple countries...install/setup/use. So that I could get an idea of how to implement for myself? THANKS!!! As a newly retired govie from the TSA I'm going to be doing a lot more travelling. 🙂
Major OMISSION - the T-Mobile Magenta Max roaming plan for 215 plus countries is included in your US rate. No costs no daily rate or sim purchase. How did this guy MISS this????😂
Good suggestion! That would be similar to working with a carrier or using an international plan like Google Fi. What I presented isn't an encyclopedic listing of every option available, rather strategies with examples. Not an omission, just not possible to mention everything. I do appreciate you watching and providing feedback though.
Absolutely. T-Mobile is the simplest and least expensive option for most people. Verizon is a rip off by comparison. Just be aware that T-Mobile charges $0.20 per minute for voice calls and limits monthly high speed data to 5GB, although you can by additional data inexpensively.
Will the Verizon Travel Pass work with other carriers like Tracfone, which is owned by Verizon? Does this accomplish the same as getting another SIM card with ILD for my unlocked phone? If I have unlimited talk & text on my Tracfone plan while in the US, does Travel Pass enable me to have unlimited talk & text while in one of the allowed countries, including if I call from Europe to the US? If my family back remaining in the US wants to call me on my US Tracfone number while I am in one of the allowed countries, do they need to have Travel Pass on their phone, too, or will they be able to call/text me as long as I have Travel Pass on the phone being used outside the US? When you say that Verizon Travel Pass would cost $10/day or $100 for 10 days, actually there are taxes and FEES, too. Do you know if the fees are exorbitant (as in more than the initial $10), or if it is literally $10 for unlimited calls/text, provided that is what your US plan includes?
So it sounds like I can use wifi even if I don't buy a local sim? And if I do buy a local sim, can I use it again when I visit the same country in a few years?
I checked out holafly for my upcoming UK doesn’t have anything usable. Their program is data only for the UK. I will need to make Texts and calls to the USA. And it’s only 60 minutes for the entire trip. I have Verizon and will use it. I do have a spare iPhone 7 and plan to buy a SIM card for it once in the UK. That’s the only way my UK friends can call me and it not be an international call. Yes, I’ll have two phones, but it seems the best move for me. Suggestions anyone?
I travel 5-6 times per year internationally. I have found T-Mobile is the best. They cover data in 200+ countries (at high speed) and calls are cheap if you need to make one. And, it is included in your US plan for no extra cost. Recently in Japan for 2+ weeks and used constantly. No extra charge except for .25 for using phone to pick up an important voice mail. Other wise all data and wifi phone service no cost.
Have a T-Mobile without the high speed international, and the included international 2G is very slow. Got the 5G 10 day pass for $35; three days have used 3.1G with limited used. Have 4 more days and I don’t want to spend ano $35. Next time I travel for about a week will get the 15G $50 pass, or get an international sim for data
Verizon now has 10 GB included in their $65/month plan. As an American living and working in Europe I just use Verizon like I do back in the states and I haven't had any issues. So many websites, apps, etc now use two factor authentication so keeping my US number on makes sense vs having to update every service.
I just did 3 weeks in Europe and E-Sim was definitely the best option as someone with an iPhone. A 10GB data plan lasted me the whole 20 days and that was using maps constantly, browsing the internet at times when I didn't have hotel Wi-Fi (like on trains). The same plan worked flawlessly in 3 different countries, and since iMessage runs off data and not cellular I could still text and communicate with everyone I needed to using my home number. Only thing I couldn't do was make phone calls but that was a non-issue for me. I think I paid $45 on Airalo for the sim and my Canadian carrier 'roam like home' plan would have been $15 a day/$300 for my whole trip.
Hi Connor, I’m so glad to see your comment as I am a Canadian who will be traveling to New York, and then Milan and Paris. 10 days in NYC, and 15 days in Europe. Haven’t used e-sim before and a bit anxious and excited about this new/better way to travel. Should I purchase the USA and Europe e-sim separately? Can I do that ahead of time so when I arrive I can just switch to the local network? I’m still doing some more digging and appreciate if you could help with what you know. Thank you.
@@winromeo I'm not sure how other providers work but with AirAlo you'll probably have to purchase one sim for the US and then a second one for Europe. You can purchase them in advance and even load them on your phone in advance, just make sure you don't activate it until you get where you're going. I loaded my AirAlo sim onto my phone the night before I left and then just activated it when I arrived in Berlin.
Hi Connor also Canadian & wondering if you took your home SIM card out to be sure you weren't using any data etc from home provider. New to this eSIM world. One the some was installed did your phone work as it would at home?
@@LaureenBoyd No I left my proper sim card in because I wanted to be able to use iMessage with my normal phone number with no interruptions. You just need to make sure you turn roaming off on your main line and then set data to your Airalo sim. This will let you send and receive messages from your normal phone number using data from the Airalo sim without activating roaming.
Hi Connor, I'm not sure if you can answer this question as my situation is a bit different. My carrier is Tracfone (pay as you go phone) so I don't really have a common (AT&T, Verizon) full-time carrier. I buy my text, min, and data when I need them. I've always done it that way cuz it's cheap and I never talk on the phone, I always use wifi. Do you think this option of purchasing an E-Sim will work for me? When I went to Canada last year, my phone wouldn't connect with any network, I was unaware about all this international stuff lol. But, when I connected to wifi, texts and data worked fine in Canada on my iPhone, MacBook. I don't need to use the phone itself. If this works for me, that would be sweet. Data and texts will be most important if I can't find wifi. Thank You. Also, I plan on being in Europe for about a month.
I've been using t-mobile for travel. When my jet lands in almost every country, a message appears saying that I'm automatically connected. It's not 5G speed, but adequate, usually 3G... The next day there is an offer on my phone to increase speed, usually to 5G, for an extra charge. Have never had any problems...
Hi, was wondering if you could help: I'm not sure if you can answer this question as my situation is a bit different. My carrier is Tracfone (pay as you go phone) so I don't really have a common (AT&T, Verizon) full-time carrier. I buy my text, min, and data when I need them. I've always done it that way cuz it's cheap and I never talk on the phone, I always use wifi. Do you think this option of purchasing an E-Sim will work for me? When I went to Canada last year, my phone wouldn't connect with any network, I was unaware about all this international stuff lol. But, when I connected to wifi, texts and data worked fine in Canada on my iPhone, MacBook. I don't need to use the phone itself. If this works for me, that would be sweet. Data and texts will be most important if I can't find wifi. Thank You. Also, I plan on being in Europe for about a month.
One thing to watch for---if you're thinking about getting a new phone before your trip, be sure to get it at least one month in advance and check with your provider about other SIM cards being locked out of your phone for a limited time. Bought a new phone 2 years ago and fortunately got it in time to have the lock out time pass so that I could use the local SIM card I already had for Switzerland when the time for my trip came.
I normally remove my chip when we are in the air over international water. I will opt Wi-Fi and use WhatsApp or another messenger app or purchase a SIM card for calls in that country - hotels, restaurants or interests etc..I learned that when the roaming issue happens to a friend who forgot to turn it off and returned to an exorbitant bill.
An additional tip: VOIP. If you gave wifi, a VOIP app (like Acrobits or one of many others), a VOIP service (like DIDww) and are moderately handy configuring technology you can have an insanely cheap local phone number (often even SMS) for multiple countries. It usually just takes a bit of time to set it up. A caviat: some businesses (like Uber) will not interact with you if you use VOIP. So, make sure to have other ways to get a taxi just in case.
I bought a SIM card in Ireland last year and it worked great, $20 for the card and a month of data. Because of EU regulations, there is no charge for data roaming in the rest of the EU, so I have used the same SIM card when I was in Germany, the UK and now next week in France. I just go online and add about $15 to top up the data for a month. I also used an old phone for the SIM card, so I do not have to keep changing the card out when I get back. So I can use my regular phone on Wifi and my old phone with the EU SIM card for data. It works great as I use Google maps a lot when I am out and about.
Would it happen to be the “3” SIM card? Cause that’s the one I’m currently using and I’m now in London and going to Norway after this. I didn’t know about that data roaming? So I can just use data roam all I want? As long as I’m topped up?
Besides being a high rate for a single user on AT&T I had to pay a months bill for 10 days in Europe. I was paying about $120 at the time. I switched to sprint after my trip paying $35 a month. My next European trip using sprint was $15 for 7 days unlimited data but ended up paying $30, which was far better than $120. The coverage was great. Now that I’m on t-mobile it looks quite favorable based on the posts I’ve read but will look into the E-SIMS too.
Another is having a Wifi Hot spot. In Japan about $5 USD per day. Other places up to about $12 USD per day dependent on data you need. Oh, the wifi in Japan is scary fast and no data limits. I use Japan-wireless and have for years. You must have a place for it to be delivered to in Japan.
How would I make local calls in the country I'm in as I travel with an eSIM? For example, if I'm in France and need to call the hotel or tour guide, how would I do that? I have google voice, but it's a USA number. Thank you!!!!!
Would 4G cell phone work in EU i.e. Greek? For 7 day trip in Greek, I plan To buy / put local SIM card to my old 4G cell phone (unlocked), just for local calls, local map search, instant google search. Still to carry my regular 5G cell phone (connecting to local Wifi ) to check normal communication i.e. text, email, heavy google search Any suggestion?
HELP! I'm tech challenged but i'm trying to do this Esim thing. I got an unlocked phone just for my trip to do this. I will be starting in Turkey, then going to Greece, Croatia and Italy over 2 weeks. Do i need a different esim for each country? also, how and when do i change between my normal phone usage to the esim- like on the airplane, or when i get there?! Can you please dumb it down for me?! LOL thank you!!!
I absolutely loved my Hollagly esim the last time I was in Europe. I did also do the Verizon international pass just because I wasn't sure how well it would work and I wanted to have a backup .Next time I'd like to do the ESIM only- my question is, can I still get access to my regular phone calls and texts if I do this and don't purchase the Verizon international pass?
Also a V user. Didn't purchase plan and bought an in-country SIM and used the FREE V app to send/receive texts which did use my V number. No international calls in or out since I was using a SIM from the country I was in but yes to local calls. The SIM gives a local tel #. Pretty much all friends in Central America and Germany/Austria use WhatsApp. In C.A. even businesses use WhatsApp many times (restaurants, etc.)
anybody have experience with Verizon in Europe? I'm about to leave for 2 months on their international $100/month plan and would like input. thank you.
I don't care about calling within the Philippines my relatives have phones I can use. To maintain EMployment I have to call Indiana one time everyday. Do the Sim cards in the airport in Cebu enable calling from Philippines to Indiana?
What will be your recommended local SIM card valid for France Italy Portugal and Barcelona Spain. Thanks. is it available in the airport say Charles de Gaulle?
@@rolandoreyes3620 In France the best will be prepaid SIM from Orange. Remember that the offer includes a separate internet package in the country from which the SIM comes from and a separate, smaller one to be used abroad as part of roaming. This does not apply to phone calls, as there is one package in the entire EU.
@@Max-bv9t This depends on the country. In Hungary, there is no separate local and EU roaming data. The only time when calls and/or data are restricted to Hungary is when the service provider gives some freebies. I normally get some free calls and a few hundred MB of data with every top-up of my prepaid SIM plus around Xmas and my birthday.
Thank you. This is a super useful video. I've heard about the international e sim but couldn't find a clear explanation or information. This is a great, concise explanation. I'm doing an 11 day tour in Italy and was only considering Verizon. Now I'm going to look at Holafly too. Thank you!!!
@@VespaRider2024 We did that in Spain for my daughter when studying abroad. It wasn't a great experience. Service was spotty. It was worse when we went to Rome afterwards.
Thank you!!!! This helps sooooo much! I will be traveling for 2.5 weeks in Europe with a toddler. I remember last time I was in Europe. I did the sim card thing and that was messy. 🤪😬 I’m gonna try Holafly!
A huge item that you didn't mention with the phone company provided travel plans is that they have a monthly charge cap (At least AT&T does). If your phone is locked, sim cards and e-sims don't work on your phone. Like you said, AT&T charges $10 a day for an international travel plan, but they limit the charges to $100 per billing cycle. So if you are in Europe for 3 weeks and use your phone everyday, you would only get charged $100. NOT $210. $100 is obviously not as cheap as a sim card or e-sim, but it's not horrible for a locked phone.
I wouldn't recommend AT&T for International phone use. They are crummy. Failed me twice on recent trips to Europe. Traveling to Europe (Spain) in the fall season and will just get a SIM card at the airport.
Verizon also has an international plan for $100 a month that is unlimited data and texts but limited voice (one can use whatsapp for voice easily). So wouldnt we need to keep roaming on if we are on an international plan?
??Question: I use international e-sim Airalo (theyre great!). My main question is this. 1: I want to keep my U.S Number. 2: I only need to be able to Receive those Banking Verification Texts from the U.S (THIS IS IMPORTANT....FROM my Banking, Credit Cards, etc etc etc....) Last time while away I was Locked outta ALL my accounts. It became a nightmare. What do you suggest for this. Like i stated, I only care about keeping my u.s number and being able to Receive those darn Verifications via Text they always send to us... when trying to online bank. thank u
I’m moving from the US to Australia for a year and am so lost on what to do. I have ATT now. Happy to change to a new provider but do I lose my US number that I’ve had for my whole life? Lol
In addition to my phone, I have a watch and iPad. I believe I’m just going to turn off cellular on the watch and iPad and use AT&T’s plan for $10 a day. I’m flying into and out of Frankfurt but I may drift around to other countries. I will be there a month. But, why turn off roaming? Does Europe have different roaming rules than US? I have roaming enabled in the US but data roaming is off. Perhaps this answer will be long.
I'm not sure if you can answer this question as my situation is a bit different. My carrier is Tracfone (pay as you go phone) so I don't really have a common (AT&T, Verizon) full-time carrier. I buy my text, min, and data when I need them. I've always done it that way cuz it's cheap and I never talk on the phone, I always use wifi. Do you think this option of purchasing an E-Sim will work for me? When I went to Canada last year, my phone wouldn't connect with any network, I was unaware about all this international stuff lol. But, when I connected to wifi, texts and data worked fine in Canada on my iPhone, MacBook. I don't need to use the phone itself. If this works for me, that would be sweet. Data and texts will be most important if I can't find wifi. Thank You. Also, I plan on being in Europe for about a month.
@@caitlincongi5174 Hello! I'm currently searching for a long-term solution to the two-factor authentication issue as well (would like to keep my US cell number for this purpose during long-term travel abroad without having to pay outrageous international coverage fees). Did you ever discover a solution? I've read a bit about porting the US number to Google Voice but need to look into it further. Thanks! 😁
I used an e-sim in Spain last year and it was great whilst there, but required multiple trips to my carrier when home as it did something strange to my phone with regards to contacts etc.
Did you lose all/the majority of your contacts? Same thing happened to me a couple months ago and I had no idea what happened until I just read your comment. Were you able to recover the contacts?
I did 6 days in Colombia and did pretty good on Verizon with the Do More plan (International travel). Unlimited T/T/D, but the speed wasn't tremendous. Claro was the local provider with Verizon on this- and there are folks peddling Claro EVERYWHERE in Bogota (hey, ya gotta make money somehow!) Next stop is TBD, though Mexico seems appealing for the Red-Headed Wonder. Maybe traveling with friends. Then, Italy next year. Keeping my VZW Travel option - love it. And worse case scenario - I can go eSIM, or WiFi only. DEFINITELY turn off Roaming!! And one other item - Turn OFF Data to the apps you know you won't use (Looking at you Chick-Fil-A, Jersey Mikes, Panera, Starb- Wait! I may need that one.) My point is, do a little maintenance BEFORE your trip. Put your data use on a diet, but don't get rid of the app - just turn off the data before hand. Safe Travels!
please make a video on travel requirements, how to get through immigration and the airport, etc as efficiently as possible, documents and sufficient funds to bring, etc.
You'd pretty much need one for every country. Costa Rica has gotten extremely lax as long as have a return ticket out of the country & name and address of first place you are staying. Have never been asked to show funds or any documentation other than passport for a 3 month tourist visa stamp in passport.
I plan to get a physical local SIM when I travel next month. Some of the other plans mentioned don't really give you long distance calling. The card I plan to get gives me about 50 min long distance. The local SIM also gives loads of data and unlimited local calls, etc.
I "THINK* that the best way to make calls from other countries is to have something like Google Voice (can call anyone) or WhatsApp (the other person has to have WhatsApp installed) setup on your phone. I know that your comment is old but I hope that this helps someone.
The bill for Verizon is 10 dollars per day added to regular bill lets say 125 and three hundred dollars for the cheap ten dollar international per day equals four hundred twenty five per month. Good luck to you
So is this right? With TravelPass, if I want to use data, or make a call and wifi is not available, I should turn on cellular data and data roaming. Then before the 24 hours are up or when I'm done with data, I turn airplane mode on and turn wifi on and wifi calling on assuming WIFI is available?
When I travel in the U.S., I always carry several walkie-talkies, which help me keep the communications with my family in remote areas where cell phone signals are weak or non-existent. I've been thinking about taking those with me to Italy, but am not sure if they are legal there. I only found some discussion on the Internet more than 10 years ago, but none seems to be authoritative. Can you shed some light on this? Thanks
Hi guys. My daughter leaves in 1 week to study in Spain for 7 months. During that time, she will also do considerable travel to other countries, both inside and outside Schengen. That travel may or may not be solo. We are on AT&T who has been outrageous about a plan ($10/day). We've decided she'll do Wifi or Bust (WhatsApp), however, we do want her to have access when she is not in a Wifi area during travel (for security reasons). So, she will also drop into a reputable phone store and get a prepaid phone to use in Schengen when Wifi is not available. Any suggestions that may work better for her?
I still don't leave for 10 days and immediately turned off data roaring. Lol I do have a question about prepaid phones. I use StraightTalk and I buy my plans a year in advance. I don't have a monthly bill. According to their website no international use is allowed, but when I spoke to them about it, they offered to unlock my phone and suggested I get a sim card when I travel from the USA to Japan. My question is do you or anyone in this comments section have any experience with this and what kind of advice would you offer me?
I read the google fi website and it says that they deactivate international roaming after 90 days of consecutive usage outside of the US. I wonder how your travel was broken up to avoid this from happening?
I used my prepaid AT&T Sim card while traveling to Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand AT&T charge me $10 a day and capped it at 10 days. So one month internationally cost me $55 for the phone plan and an additional $100 for 10 days at $10 a day for total of $155 per month
I recently used an e-sim in india with Whatsapp and it worked great. Our tour guides and hotels all had Wharsapp. Now i am going to Ireland and the company that we are using for tours doesn't have a Whatsapp account.
thanks great video. it seems like google Fi requires purchase of a new phone? If I dont have wifi then the hola fly app will be my choice. thanks again.
I have T-Mobile. In 2018 I was in Europe for a month. I can't remember if there was a fee (if so, it wasn't memorable) but I had all the data & texting I needed. Phone calls were not a part of it. Next month (Sept 2023) I'm going to Europe for about six weeks. I called T-Mobile and for $50 I can get 15 extra GB of high-speed for a month and it's all the texting all the data AND phone calls included. (That's on top of my 5gig that I have already) This seems like the easiest for me but I'm going to ask my friend who grew up in Paris what she plans to do.... She's going to be in Europe as well and I will be meeting her in Paris so I'm going to see what she does in case there's a better option. But not having to fiddle around with all of that for only $50 seems like a good deal to me haha 😁
Hi, I was in Rome for 5 days, France for 3 weeks (southeast small town an hour from Lyon), the Loire, Paris, Brittany/edge of Normandy, England & Scotland for 2 weeks....(London, Windsor, Blenheim, Ipswich, Scotland.... Edinburgh, St Andrews, the Highlands, Glasgow, back to England thru Nottingham and London) and then to Dublin and all over Ireland for 10 days at the end.... Including Northern Ireland... All phone calls included in the $50 (which I had to do a second time because it was more than a month). I wasn't paying attention to the 5g, but my service was fine (I would say VERY good) except for random times when I was in the middle of nowhere.... in Scotland, or Ireland as I drove through all sorts of countryside throughout them both.... I made a LOT of phone calls, both to places where I was, and to the US. The trickiest part of THAT is figuring out the magic numbers on order to get the call through haha. When I was in France with my friend who grew up in Paris (an American for the last 40 years), I was trying to call somewhere IN France... So...ok, dial the EXIT code for the US, (sometimes 011, OR the +), then dial the code for France (33)... Ok, but that wasn't working... Then she tells me that I need to drop the first 0 in the French phone number... Hahahaha. So every time after that when I was no longer with her but I was trying to call places in England, or Scotland or Ireland, it was like a guessing game... What are the magic numbers LOL. But I have to say that about 80% of the time I figured it out! I think my $50 for a month was TOTALLY worth it. I probably would have had a $500++phone bill otherwise, just for my phone calls. I hope that helps! 😁
I have a BLU G9 and a new BLU BOLD N3, neither of which support eSim's though they are unlocked with dual sim slots. Guess I'll have to stick with getting a local sim card.
Help! I was told my iPhone 14 Pro already has a built in eSIM and that doing a plan through Verizon is much better and that there can be hassle with the rain when you return home. I’m not sure I really understand the difference or which one is best. All of the travel videos I watch recommend an eSIM.
Ok so my iPhone 12 Pro will take an e sim and I can keep my eri on SIM card. My husband has an iPhone 6s (do not even ask) and his doesn’t, so he will likely do the$100/month International plan for our upcoming trip to Italy. How will he and I communicate if I have an Italian sim and he doesn’t . Sorry…I just don’t get how it all works.
I am flying to Egypt soon and have lay over in Europe. Can I get a sim card in Egypt and also the Verizon plan so I can use my phone during my layovers in Europe? Thanks
