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More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Kinda nice that Google Fi gives you global roaming at no extra charge. Too bad it hardly ever works and text messaging is a shitshow.

Still used a travel esim on my last trip just to be able to reliably use my phone.

Probably dropping them soon because text message reliability is already a joke at home with them...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Interesting that you’ve had such a negative experience with Google Fi. My job requires regular relocation around the globe plus frequent international travel. I have yet to visit a country where it doesn’t work for the ~10 years I have been with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

If you have a pixel 8 I actually had to bring mine back because the modem would regularly just fail to send text messages or failed to do the proper handshake for a data connection

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The problem I had with products like Airalo is that if you are traveling and need to actually call a hotel, excursion, or any company in the country you are visiting you cannot do that with just a data eSIM like Airalo.

Sure you could use WiFi calling maybe but in my experience when I really needed to call someone I had to switch back to my original carrier and incur the $10/day fee.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

There are certain esim providers that give you a number. Esimdb.com

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

free trial tmobile (esim)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have never used an eSIM, but I'd like to know about them. Can anyone explain what are some reasons to use it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm using Roamless because the eSim is pretty cool, automatically swaps to whatever country I'm in, rates are near local prices, and the best part is it's pay as you go and your balance doesn't expire. There's plenty of other good services too, but they charge for a certain period of time while still being limited data. Some are unlimited which are pretty cool though, but haven't seen another service that's able to swap between countries like Roamless though.

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