Originally Posted by
frappant
Doesn't it come down to companies which operate their own networks and have roaming deals with carriers in other countries versus companies which don't operate a network but buy bandwidth from various networks?
thats the V in MVNO vs MNO
Mobile Network operator (MNO)
Mobile Network Virtual operator (MVNO)
you could be either to sign roaming deals directly with carriers.
or you could just whitelabel/resell a product sold by a MNO/MVNO without having to talk to foreign carriers at all (in this case, are you really a MNVO?)
I guess the Asian carriers are more aggressively selling bandwidth because their postpaid customers are not consuming enough data? So they have excess capacity and it makes sense to sell it.
Or maybe they do consume a lot of data but the networks are over deployed, have greater capacity.
i think Poland Play is very aggressive in selling travel esim bandwidth, I see many travel esims going with them (if you see travelesim asking you to set APN: Play/Play Internet, that's Poland play)
one reason might be cost/scale, especially within EU due to EU wholesale data regulation (these are max allowed wholesale rates, not rates sold to consumer directly)
https://www.capacitymedia.com/articl...-voice-and-sms
could also be that the MNO/MNVO contracted certain minimum spend/capacity requirements with foreign networks, and needs to hit that minimum regardless. the MNO/MVNO might make more money charging their native customers high roaming fees, and just need these travel esims to recuperate the rest of the costs. and remember that most people won't exhaust the whole 10GB data bucket (whatever they bought) before leaving the country