paperwastage
Fantastic reply, thank you.
silent.link/unisim - Would be very interesting to know who supplies silent.link. I know Simtex is a large B2B supplier of eSIMs but most sites reselling a Simtex eSIM seem to have high prices so not sure if they're the source.
Breakouts - I thought about putting in breakout info for the different services but it wasn't always apparent what the breakouts are. Indeed having local (or at least regional) breakouts are helpful rather than one breakout for all countries. For example, I believe the KeepGo plans I mentioned have Poland breakouts.
Mtxconnect - If I'm reading the terms correctly, the balance on even their PAYG plan expires after 30 days. Additionally at 12 EUR/GB (or with a special right now it's $9.08/GB), makes it worse than several of the other options. So I don't see their use case except as a more expensive alternative.
RBM - If it's GB/month/country then that essentially invalidates them from this list. I emailed them to ask.
Eskimo/PAYG - I'll check out the other PAYG rates and edit my last post.
BetterRoaming - Yes very expensive and short validity. Are you saying they still provide slow data in perpetuity? Only to their own site or all of the web? If only their own site, I'd say Firsty Free sounds like a better thing to keep on your phone. If all of the web, that sounds like a Firsty Free without having to watch ads. Also, BetterRoaming's watch plan seems to be one country only.
Use cases - Yes agree with all that you stated. While this is basically already covered by what you said, I think for digital nomads or other constant travelers (Staff traveler markets to airline crew), it makes sense to not have to keep buying local plans or pre-allotted usage.
Another thing I did not look at but worth looking at is whether any services let you pool multiple eSIMs under one account. I know DENT had a "DENT Teams" at one point where you share your data across multiple SIMs. So your watch, phone, etc can all share the same GB if you're buying per GB and some devices are low usage.
Originally Posted by
CheckInPeach
Not sure why it was not mentioned but Airalo has a Global SIM with 1 year validity in 136 countries and 20 GB for 69 USD (3.45$/GB). Also a pretty good offer. I'm using it for a while now, so far all traffic exited in the Netherlands.
I was compiling my list in a different window and my copy pasting must have missed Airalo. Here's what I had originally written, I'll edit my last post to include:
Airalo:
Their only global with long validity is 20 GB for $69 ($3.45/GB). Making them still slightly more expensive than Staff Traveler if 20 GB is exactly what you need.
Originally Posted by
draver
paperwastage has made 4 good points for consideration of the great table created by Royal2000h. Since it seems to be unique amongst the collection, it may be important to some to add that Roamless also has voice service for outgoing calls included for each country. As I mentioned in my original post about Roamless, just like data pricing, the voice service rates vary per country. This can also vary depending upon the carrier of the party called. Many are as low as $0.01 per minute, but can be much higher. When you place a call using Roamless, it appears on caller ID as a +44 UK number to the called party. You have no assigned number, so you cannot receive incoming calls, so texting would be useful to a secondary number on your phone. Another minor benefit to some is, the plan & service is portable between devices on Roamless. It can easily be moved to another phone or tablet, laptop, etc. by deleting the plan on device 1, and logging in on device 2. These instructions are included in the Support heading on the plan. Roamless also works as a data plan for dual sim phones on IMS functions.
I didn't include voice service but indeed that may be important for many people. There are lots of voice over data providers that can be shopped and compared (and therefore don't need to be tied to the data provider) so I left off the list. I also can't find Roamless's rates without being registered, as an example, how do they compare to Google Voice calling rates?