Originally Posted by
CheckInPeach
The situation gets more complicated/intransparent with eSIMS issued by Airalo and such. They use all kinds of providers and third party roaming partners, depending on country. When I used Airalo in Tanzania last month, all data was routed through the US. Last year it was routed through Israel. Whoever gives them the best deal I guess.
Last year too, it was only some of their eSIMs that routed via Israel. For each national, regional and the global data eSIM type, it seems like the country whose operator is used for the eSIM at time of purchase varies based on what Airalo thinks works for it. Then that eSIM operator uses its own roaming partners to keep us connected. They are playing some kind of arbitrage game this way, and I do like it if they can keep it going and these throttling and offlining issues start to drop off in frequency for my purposes.
Last year, I saw at least three countries ‘ operators being the backbone of some of the Airalo eSIMs.