I also find it annoying that basically all roaming works by tunneling traffic back home. I guess it kinda makes sense for calls where it needs to be routed by t

I also find it annoying that basically all roaming works by tunneling traffic back home. I guess it kinda makes sense for calls where it needs to be routed by the home carrier but for data it adds a lot of latency and cost. In Canada our data is stupidly expensive such that as a fairly small data user I was considering getting a PAYG "global data plan" instead of a monthly local phone plan (I don't use a local number anyways, so I just need data). And while it would be cheaper for me (and be extraordinarily cheaper when traveling) basically all of these sims have a "home" country that traffic is routed to. Not only is this slower but it also results in funny behaviour for sites that try to optimize/block users based on GeoIP. If one of these global sim providers could do local egress I would be all over that plan.