How is jetogo? I'm fond of non-expiring and reliable esims, even if they're a bit more expensive.

It's ok. It says Verizon/T-Mobile, but occasionally it is unable to connect to T-Mobile (but it'll connect to Verizon successfully ). You can have 4 esim profiles sharing same account balance which is a huge plus, but it currently always routes via London

I would look at the other payg esims with regional routing for lower latency too - roamless, nxtlsim, and maybe qrispy. It's possible for roamless to force routing via north america always, (though some users don't have this feature) , while the other two are just based on your location and you cannot force it

Yes, Lycamobile UK is a UK MVNO that uses EE only. When you use it, you should get a local UK IP address

Apparently you have to cancel or they will charge you again?

And there's report of a data hack and people getting charges put on their cards for something unrelated.

IIRC (I had a Lyca eSIM last fall and used it for just under a month), I turned off automatic payments and that was sufficient.

Yeah you either have to call in or use their app or website. The latter two requires creating an account and storing a credit card with them.

So if my family that uses all newer iPhones, travels in Europe with an eSIM, we can all use iMessage without having to resort to using WhatsApp ?

Yes. But sometimes iMessage can sometimes get a little wonky when you add/remove eSIMs. It USUALLY works fine as long as you leave your regular SIM active (disable roaming on your home SIM if you have any concern about racking up charges). If you have problems, go into the iMessage (and Facetime) settings and make sure your regular number is still associated with iMessage (and Facetime).

I am currently working on a new esim site which provides QR's directly from different vendors. Atm I have 4 vendors plugged into it(3 more soon) and it only displays the cheapest on the frontend with a small markup on my side to cover the server costs etc.

95% of the time it is cheaper than Airalo and others, due to reselling prices being super extremely cheap. I can pretty much price match any other rate out there due to how many providers I have linked up. Every night it pulls latest prices and recalculates everything to always show the cheapest rate.

Would people here be interested in such a site? Or do you tend to stick to the "big named players"? I'd love to know from frequent travellers before fully developing the ios/android app. Atm it's a website only.

it would have to be a sizeable monetary discount for me personally to add in a third party ...

and with esims being so cheap ... even if you achieve a decent percentage discount, the quantum probably isn't that big?

I find the "big name" players like Airalo are always more expensive and the service of some of the smaller players is just as good or better. I think the most important bits to worry about relate to problems when installing and using an eSIM for the first time. If you can help with that at a lower cost it sounds like a win. And a web site seems fine. Who wants yet another app to have to use (unless the app itself allows connectivity from anywhere so you can actually purchase an eSIM using it).

Presumably you realize there are dozens if not hundreds of sites that already do this? Most recently I've been using yohomobile.com who do this, and even take it a step further by giving you multiple options for each country, generally with different prices/benefits, and let you choose. There's nothing special about Yoho - as I said there's countless others that do exactly the same thing.

I just downloaded the app, which has a slide switch on the very first page that allows you to turn auto-renewal on or off.

Hi from Greece! I have an Airolo eSIM for Europe+UK (off to UK soon). I was able to set my phone so that I use my physical SIM to receive texts while the eSIM does calls (which it can't do since it's data only) and for data. I was able to receive regular texts from Canada. It did not like MMS messages, though, even though I was on wifi. I only turn on the physical SIM when I need it and am on wifi - just in case!

Hopefully helpful for someone.

As long as the iPhones are unlocked. Settings, General, About, Carrier Lock with No Sim Restrictions

That is a fair point to be honest.

I used to use Airalo a lot, then tried revolut but their sims never worked for me. I liked their AI chatbot auto refunding in minutes without any human. So this is what I am working on in my site.

To be honest I built this as a hobby project for personal use and for family and friends. As we travel quite a lot so it just made sense. And Yoho mobile looks great actually, never heard of it and some of their plans actually beat my pricing and some of my plans beat their pricing. Wonder which suppliers they are using that I do not have access to it. Will dig more now. Thanks