E-SIM USA

peteyh

Hi has anyone recently bought or know of best value E-Sims you can purchase for the USA - Specifically Florida and California. Unlimited. useage to keep it simple. Just wondering which suppliers and costs related are best.

thanks

silvercar

I've used airalo in a number of countries, but not the USA. Can't see why it wouldn't work there provided you have a phone that takes an eSIM and is 4G or 5G.

You will need to look at the different options for the size or unlimited, but airalo does allow you to buy then top up as necessary.

silvercar

To add, O2 in the UK has free roaming in the USA, so compare with the cost of getting an O2 SIM here.

peteyh

Thanks appreciate - checked those out but neither seem to be offering unlimited unfortunately.. Ill keep browsing.

silvercar

peteyh said:

Thanks appreciate - checked those out but neither seem to be offering unlimited unfortunately.. Ill keep browsing.

Airalo offers 20GB over 30 days for 42$. If you get through 20GB you can always buy more.

photome

silvercar said:

To add, O2 in the UK has free roaming in the USA, so compare with the cost of getting an O2 SIM here.

Can I ask where you have seen that 02 have free roaming in the USA , I thought it was £6 a day for a travel bolt on .

I know they are free in the EU

photome

You used to be able to buy a three sim for £10 which would give you free mins/text and data for 30 days in the USA but not sure if that’s still available , you could only buy it from a three shop it wasn’t available online last time I bought one early last year

silvercar

photome said:

silvercar said:

To add, O2 in the UK has free roaming in the USA, so compare with the cost of getting an O2 SIM here.

Can I ask where you have seen that 02 have free roaming in the USA , I thought it was £6 a day for a travel bolt on .

I know they are free in the EU

I could just show you my recent bill! Visited Canada and USA and no charges. But they send you a text message on arrival with a link to this page:

https://www.o2.co.uk/international/travel-inclusive-zone

Key sentence: "Going outside of Europe? Good news. With our O2 Travel Inclusive Zone Bolt On, available on selected O2 Refresh and sim only tariffs, you can get inclusive data roaming in 27 international destinations. "

The 27 countries, outside of their Europe zone are:

Argentina	Honduras
Australia	Madagascar
Botswana	Mexico
Canada	Myanmar
Chile	New Zealand
Colombia	Nicaragua
Costa Rica	Panama
Ecuador	Paraguay
El Salvador	Peru
Greenland	Rwanda
Guatemala	United States
Guinea	Uruguay
Guyana	Venezuela
Yemen

 

bagand96

silvercar said:

photome said:

silvercar said:

To add, O2 in the UK has free roaming in the USA, so compare with the cost of getting an O2 SIM here.

Can I ask where you have seen that 02 have free roaming in the USA , I thought it was £6 a day for a travel bolt on .

I know they are free in the EU

I could just show you my recent bill! Visited Canada and USA and no charges. But they send you a text message on arrival with a link to this page:

https://www.o2.co.uk/international/travel-inclusive-zone

Key sentence: "Going outside of Europe? Good news. With our O2 Travel Inclusive Zone Bolt On, available on selected O2 Refresh and sim only tariffs, you can get inclusive data roaming in 27 international destinations. "

The 27 countries, outside of their Europe zone are:

Argentina	Honduras
Australia	Madagascar
Botswana	Mexico
Canada	Myanmar
Chile	New Zealand
Colombia	Nicaragua
Costa Rica	Panama
Ecuador	Paraguay
El Salvador	Peru
Greenland	Rwanda
Guatemala	United States
Guinea	Uruguay
Guyana	Venezuela
Yemen

 

I'm with O2 on a 12 month SIM only but don't think I get the "O2 Travel Inclusive Zone". I've had a look around my O2 account and certainly can't see it anywhere. It does say "selected O2 Refresh and Sim only" so I guess I'm not a lucky one, I can only see EU roaming included. Although I'm on a very cheap plan.

bagand96

photome said:

You used to be able to buy a three sim for £10 which would give you free mins/text and data for 30 days in the USA but not sure if that’s still available , you could only buy it from a three shop it wasn’t available online last time I bought one early last year

Still works. Three PAYG Data Bundles include Go Roam upto 12GB in a month. I know the OP wants unlimited, but Three PAYG is a cheap and easy option, there's WiFi everywhere in the USA so I've always found 12GB is fine for when you're out and about in between WiFi.

https://www.three.co.uk/Support/Free_SIM/Order

silvercar

bagand96 said:

silvercar said:

photome said:

silvercar said:

To add, O2 in the UK has free roaming in the USA, so compare with the cost of getting an O2 SIM here.

Can I ask where you have seen that 02 have free roaming in the USA , I thought it was £6 a day for a travel bolt on .

I know they are free in the EU

I could just show you my recent bill! Visited Canada and USA and no charges. But they send you a text message on arrival with a link to this page:

https://www.o2.co.uk/international/travel-inclusive-zone

Key sentence: "Going outside of Europe? Good news. With our O2 Travel Inclusive Zone Bolt On, available on selected O2 Refresh and sim only tariffs, you can get inclusive data roaming in 27 international destinations. "

The 27 countries, outside of their Europe zone are:

Argentina	Honduras
Australia	Madagascar
Botswana	Mexico
Canada	Myanmar
Chile	New Zealand
Colombia	Nicaragua
Costa Rica	Panama
Ecuador	Paraguay
El Salvador	Peru
Greenland	Rwanda
Guatemala	United States
Guinea	Uruguay
Guyana	Venezuela
Yemen

 

I'm with O2 on a 12 month SIM only but don't think I get the "O2 Travel Inclusive Zone". I've had a look around my O2 account and certainly can't see it anywhere. It does say "selected O2 Refresh and Sim only" so I guess I'm not a lucky one, I can only see EU roaming included. Although I'm on a very cheap plan.

I'm on a (legacy I guess) 10GB for about £8 a month plan and I got it. If you aren't on the high data plans you could pick it as your one extra.