E-Sim card for Europe
Hi - last summer we travelled to Germany and down to Switzerland. Have spent a lot of time in Germany the last few years. However, last year, forgetting that we are no longer in the EU we had major problems with phone, internet coverage - only have 5MB of use until charges went up.
We are travelling to Holland and Germany for two months at the end of July and I have recently seen that an E- Sim card might be the answer - does anyone have experience of using one, any advice would be useful?
We did try to buy a local Sim card last year but it proved almost impossible to set up!
Thank you for any responses - Maureen and Philip.,
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If you have a look at the SIM only deals available via Moneysupermarket.com (and others), there are a number plans that will offer you EU roaming at a very reasonable price.
I'm with Lebara and pay £6.95 a month for 15GB of data at home and when roaming in the EU, unlimited UK minutes and texts, plus 100 minutes of International calls including most of the EU.
I recently spent 87 days in the EU and 15GB (per month) was more than enough for me, although it depends how heavy a user you are.
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We have three service providers with no contracts. Lebara, Giff Gaff and Smarty. We find the combination of all three generally meets our roaming requirements. Suggest you use uSwitch to work out what best suits you. The only advantage of eSims I see is the ability to run two service providers on the one phone (if the phone allows this) and the ease with which you could change this on the eSim. Never tried it myself but I have been looking into it recently. Got as far as establishing my phone will support an eSim as well as a card but no further as which network to use. It gets very confusing.
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If you are interested in eSims, I found >this< interesting article about them. Digging a bit further I came up with >this site< where you can buy eSims for use abroad, there are others.
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