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Travel esim's are not equal. There are not many actual operators that back those esim services, especially in the price conscious end. A recent experience: ge
by jnsaff2 3y ago
Travel esim's are not equal.
There are not many actual operators that back those esim services, especially in the price conscious end.
A recent experience: get a sim that covered countries that I traveled during one trip: Singapore, NZ, USA. The operator ended up being Drei Austria and all the traffic passed through Austria which meant that:
- In Singapore the latency was high but essentially usable.
- In NZ, especially in the more remote areas it was often completely unusable even when there was cell coverage as the latency and packet loss killed all the fun.
- In NYC it was quite alright, nothing to cheer about but decent.
While in a recent trip to Japan we got a single country plan that was offered by Singtel .. traffic did a 10kkm round trip but was generally very fast.
So keep this in mind when you next buy an eSim.