I wonder...if there is a Wifi Hotspot device out there that can somehow be programmed to use eSIMs....

It seems people are selling some that is tied to a carrier but wouldn't it be cool to have one that can take different eSIMs? Programming would be via the web interface like many routers / Wifi devices support.

Thanks.

Anyone know about this eSIM provider? (it appears to be a UK-based Vodafone reseller)

https://esim.net/travel/super

They offer a month of "unlimited" for 29 Sterling (US$34 at current rate). 1 month of "unlimited" service, with a fair use policy of 25GB (after which no data).

So...
$34 for 25GB, meaning $1.36 per GB, valid for one month. That's pretty good!

The catch: limited to 75 countries...Mostly Europe, select Caribbean, and some Africa and Oceania:

Albania, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Austria, Australia, Azores, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Islands, Cayman Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France (incl.Corsica), French Guiana, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy (incl. Vatican City), Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Martinique, Mayotte, Mexico, Monaco, Montserrat, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Reunion, Saint Martin, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain (incl. Balearic Islands), St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenadines, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom and United States.

For anyone travel to Poland, ORANGE FLEX have a killer deal, download their APP (you need register a Poland Apple/Google APP store account), use code FLEX you get 1st month 1PLN, and it supports eSIM, you can add 5 addtional SIM for free, I add P2 eSIM as well (however additional SIM don't work for roaming), For first month I choose 80PLN 150GB plan (with 15.34GB roaming in EU), and later you can cancel plan in APP it's very simple.

They do ask you to upload your photo ID though (I use passport)

I'm not sure if you can activate this plan in other EU country first, since I land in Poland first, you can try worst thing is lose 1PLN (0.25USD)

https://flex.orange.pl/en/offer/offer-for-you

Has anyone tried Flexiroam? I tried it years ago before esim when they would send you that little sticker to put over your sim card, and it was honestly great. Pricing seems pretty reasonable but im sure there are better esim options out there, that one a couple posts above looks cheaper than my phone plan in Canada lol.

I've tried Flexiroam eSIM and it works great! (no need for a sticker anymore) Just buy a plan...lots of different data buckets available, but wait until there are discounts, which happen frequently. Buy the plan, scan the QR code with your device, and install the eSIM. You should download the free app to monitor data usage. The biggest benefit of Flexiroam over some other providers is the "global" plans are 150+ countries, including some small island destinations that are often not part of "global" plans.

https://travel.flexiroam.com/

Just got back from a 2 week trip in Turkey/Thailand/Japan. Ended up using Airalo for all 3 countries - there were slightly cheaper options available, but theirs were good enough to go with the simplicity of using them for all.

Turkey took quite some time to activate. I had been on the ground for over an hour before it suddenly started working. Once it was working, it worked fine. Roaming provider, but I'm not sure who it was roaming to.

Thailand was my first non-roaming eSIM - it was sold as being through dtac (one of the major Thai providers), and sure enough it was directly through them, with no need to enable roaming to use it. In hindsight, I could have bought this eSIM directly from the dtac website for slightly cheaper (literally about 30 cents cheaper!) but would probably go with Airalo next time again just for the convenience.

Japan was through Singtel (roaming onto Softbank) and mostly worked fine, although I did randomly lose coverage several times in areas of Tokyo where I'm sure Softbank would have had coverage. A few minutes later it would start working again. When it was working I didn't have any performance problems as reported by Majuki above, however I really wasn't pushing it enough to know.

How do you tell the parent company of the eSIM with Airalo?

I checked my e-mail records, and both eSIMs I had in Japan were branded as Moshi Moshi. I forget who the roaming partners were back in December, but that was the eSIM where I had performance issues. I attempted to use that one around Tokyo and Nagoya. The connection to the mobile network would be stable, but the connectivity was slow. For these troubles, Airalo refunded my money and reissued the eSIM, which was also Moshi Moshi, with new partner networks in Japan. (The currently listed networks are KDDI and SoftBank.) The second eSIM, which I used in Tokyo in January for a few days before flying back to SFO, seemed to function a lot better.

On Android, go to the SIM screen for the SIM and scroll down to "Carrier settings version". For my Japan eSIM (which was also branded as Moshi Moshi like yours), it shows as "singtel_sg", which means that Sintel is the provider.

I just checked the Turkey one, and it's showing the provider as "310840" which corresponds to MMC 310, MNC 840, which is "Telecom North America Mobile Inc", aka telna.com who in turn appears to be an MVNO provider. (Google or websites like https://mcc-mnc.net/ are your friend for mapping those numbers to a provder)

On an S22 I went Settings > Connections > SIM Manager > Airalo JP > More Information. The Service provider is listed as Airalo, but this eSIM profile is currently disabled since I'm in the US.

On the Pixel it's Settings -> Network and Internet -> SIMs -> Select the relevant SIM and then scroll down. The SIM will need to be enabled - you should be able to do that fine even if you're not in coverage area (ie, it doesn't actually need to conncet to the network - just have the SIM active)

I did this for both the Japan Airalo eSIM (Moshi Moshi) and the US Airalo eSIM (Change). The Moshi Moshi eSIM still said Airalo, and the Change eSIM said AT&T, which happened to be the network to which it connected. The only indication that I saw with the Change eSIM was that the APN was for Orange. Perhaps the UI on the Pixel shows this information more readily. I'd probably have to change to the Developer Options / verbose mode to get that level of information with the Samsung UI.

There are two pretty cheap options - https://eskimo.travel/ and https://www.keepgo.com/products/esim...ica-canada-usa that I've seen many Canadians post about using in other forums. Around $90-$100 USD for 25-30Gb for a year, can start with referral codes and get 1-3Gb initially to test it out.

The 3hk plan is even cheaper if you're willing to go with them

(268hkd/35usd 30GB +5GB social data, 365 days , USA/Canada/UK/Australia/NZ)

Yup, 3HK is a good option too (notwithstanding the long ping times). I used their 30-day Global plan recently on a trip through the UAE and India, just as a backup to my main T-Mobile plan, and it worked just fine for typical usage. BTW, the T-Mobile One Plus promo (which was a free promo many of us were lucky enough to get years ago) provided 5Gb high-speed data and was great to have.

sweet i'll give it a go next trip!