Travel eSIMs.
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Travel data without the roaming bill

A travel eSIM is a mobile data plan your phone downloads instead of a plastic SIM card. The hardware is already built into every recent handset — an iPhone from XS onward, a recent Pixel or Galaxy — so adding one is a software step you can finish at your kitchen table before a trip rather than a chore waiting for you at the other end. Your normal SIM stays exactly where it is, which is the part people tend to be surprised by: calls and texts to your usual number keep arriving while the travel plan quietly handles data.

The reason travellers reach for one is cost and predictability. Home-network roaming is convenient but priced for convenience, and a fortnight abroad can produce a bill you only understand after the fact. A local SIM bought on arrival is usually cheaper, but it costs you a shop, a passport check, your own number going dark for the trip, and a fiddly tray swap with a paperclip you do not have. An eSIM sidesteps both: you buy a known amount of data for a known price before you leave, and the plan is already on the phone when you land.

Our prices are fixed rather than unlimited. That is deliberate. An unlimited plan almost always carries a fair-use threshold, after which speeds are throttled to something close to unusable — the limit exists either way, it is just further down the terms page. We would rather show you a number: 1 GB, 5 GB, 10 GB, with the total you pay printed next to it. When the data is gone it stops, nothing renews, and no second charge appears a month later.

Coverage runs to over 190 countries, with single-country plans for one destination, regional bundles for a multi-stop route through Europe or Asia, and global packages for longer trips. Prices in the list update live from our network partners, so what you read on a destination page is what checkout charges.

Installing takes a couple of minutes. After payment your order page shows a QR code and, underneath it, the SM-DP+ address and activation code in plain text. Scan the code with the phone that will use the eSIM, or type the two values into "Add eSIM" if you are buying on that same handset — it cannot photograph its own screen. Leave the line switched off until you arrive, because many plans begin counting from the first connection to a network at the destination. On landing, enable it, select it for mobile data, and turn on data roaming for that line only.

One thing worth knowing before you buy: the QR code and activation code normally work exactly once. Most networks disable them the moment the profile is installed, so removing the eSIM later usually will not let you reinstall it with the same code. Install on the device you actually intend to travel with, and if something goes wrong, contact support rather than deleting the profile.