Using your mobile abroad

jpaul · 19 Mar 2024 at 11:57

seem to be some feedback on holifly of throttling if using more than 2GB in a day, or using tethering (if you were taking a tablet too)
so do wonder if you should just buy a sim card on the ground there, after reccying which supermarkets/stores would sell it.

Raymond Lin · 19 Mar 2024 at 12:26

I couldn’t get it to tether in Morocco on Holafly. Hotspot didn’t show up on Gf’s phone.

Reuben klang · 20 Mar 2024 at 21:47

jpaul said:
seem to be some feedback on holifly of throttling if using more than 2GB in a day, or using tethering (if you were taking a tablet too)
so do wonder if you should just buy a sim card on the ground there, after reccying which supermarkets/stores would sell it.

Can’t comment on either to be honest, I didn’t notice a speed drop and I was watching Netflix as well as updating my apps and pods. I have photo auto sync to iCloud too.

I didn’t use or try to use tether though.

iamdjdz · 24 Mar 2024 at 13:48

Raymond Lin said:
eSIM, easy peasy.

Holafly

Airalo

Can you use roaming on these SIMs and get one in the UK without going to the destination country? I was trying to sign up for something that needs an Indian number to receive an SMS verification but couldn't figure it out so if you could use this in the UK to receive SMS I'd sign up for a few days.

Raymond Lin · 24 Mar 2024 at 14:14

iamdjdz said:
Can you use roaming on these SIMs and get one in the UK without going to the destination country? I was trying to sign up for something that needs an Indian number to receive an SMS verification but couldn't figure it out so if you could use this in the UK to receive SMS I'd sign up for a few days.

These are data only, you don’t get a number….at least Airalo.

With Holafly I just checked, there is a number but I’ve never dialed from it.

You can install these in the UK.

iamdjdz · 24 Mar 2024 at 14:21

Raymond Lin said:
These are data only, you don’t get a number….at least Airalo.

With Holafly I just checked, there is a number but I’ve never dialed from it.

You can install these in the UK.

Cool might see about Holafly as if you could receive SMS here that would be useful. Thanks

Raymond Lin · 24 Mar 2024 at 14:41

iamdjdz said:
Cool might see about Holafly as if you could receive SMS here that would be useful. Thanks

I just compared the first few digits international dialling code and it’s different.

Morocco is +212 and the esim is +43 which is Austria?

iamdjdz · 24 Mar 2024 at 14:55

Raymond Lin said:
I just compared the first few digits international dialling code and it’s different.

Morocco is +212 and the esim is +43 which is Austria?

Ah that's weird. I think India is +91... no idea how these things work tbh.

Raymond Lin · 7 May 2024 at 12:31

Update - Not sure why but i just got home from Morocco again. Using Holafly again, same plan again.

This time, I was getting only LTE, not 4G. It was connecting to a local network (Orange), same network as my gf who is a local. She gets 4G, I don't. I even went through all the settings with their Customer Support, which to be fair, was excellent. We went back and forth at midnight on WhatsApp trying to figure it out.

The ping was absolutely horrendous, I mean it still worked but I don't think I got through 100mb of data all week due to the absurdly slow Ping. It was so bad I almost bought Airalo half way through then I noticed on Airalo it also says LTE...

I guess the take away is that you don't know until you get there, even if you have prior experience from the same place, just 3 months earlier....things can change quickly.

glenimp617 · 7 May 2024 at 13:14

I think giffgaff let you have 5gb of your current plan within the EU

Might be an option