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[+] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

There are lots of countries where they won't sell you the cheap local plans as a tourist anyway.

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[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

How is it not as good as a physical sim? They are the same rates.

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[+] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] registeredusername@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Heard Holafly 😉👍 in App Store is a money saver when traveling. You just have to make sure your phone is unlocked.

Basically just physical sim for home and eSIM for traveling as most phone today are dual sim (ie.. sim and eSIM) built in

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

eSIMdb is good place to find even more options :)

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[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's also the ease of it. I travelled to Indonesia a while back thinking I could pick up a SIM card once there. I didn't realise you have to register the phone itself for tax reasons (?) to white list the IMEI of the phone before buying a SIM card. It was loads easier just to buy a roaming eSIM after I arrived. In hind sight I probably could have got a better package had I shopped before hand but it got me out of a tricky situation.

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Same issues in Turkye. You have to track down a shop and they'll fleece you because they flat out refuse to sell you the cheap options under various pretexts. If you use the SIM for 6 months you have to register your IMEI, and if you don't they expire and you have to do it all over again. So yeah, having an eSIM is a big improvement.