Originally Posted by
Dubai Stu
I just got back from a month abroad and beta tested Popcorn Mobile from Portugal down to South Africa and in Istanbul. The only two countries it didn’t work were São Tomé and Namibia.
Otherwise, it worked like a champ. They don’t cut you off for extended time abroad. My wife and I are toying about retiring to Portugal. So far so good. In the US it uses both TMobile and ATT. In addition to your regular eSIM, they give you a secondary data SIM. In the US, I would put the secondary SIM in virtual slot 2 and use it for fallback roaming. In Europe, I would have a voice only Portuguese SIM in the other slot. Popcorn.io.
That website demands a login before it will load. It appears the correct website is popcorn.space. There is also a popcorn.tel, which seems to be a Russian mobile operator offering very similar services. It isn’t clear to me whether the two are related.
One oddity that makes me suspicious is that popcorn.space’s domain registrant details are redacted in the public Whois. Doesn’t seem like the kind of thing a reputable company would do, so it makes me wonder if the Russian company owns the US one and is trying to be sneaky. I would use a different carrier, personally. I don’t want all my communications being routed through Moscow…