Hey everyone! I’ve been doing some research on this and I have more questions than answers now, so hoping for some help!
My boyfriend and I currently live in the US (we have a T-Mobile Magenta Max plan) but we’re retiring next year and planning to spend the next 5-10 years traveling abroad (Europe, Asia, Africa, South America). I might be hunting for something that doesn’t exist, but I’m looking for a single phone plan that would work on all these continents without me having to arrange for a local eSIM in every country.
I don’t know how much regular access to WiFi we’ll have so something like Airalo might be an issue given the very limited data thresholds.
Curious to hear any suggestions you might have!
Every airport and similar ports of entry will have a local sim shop usually. In my experience it would take something like 20 min per country to set up, and depending on your phone you could have the local and the US sim active at the same time (and choose what consumption goes to which sim).
imo not worth to overpay for a home contract, especially since it is very possible you get low priority in data roaming and your speeds might be low (eg. vodafone roaming sucks)
This is good to know! I didn’t know how difficult setup would be. The other issue I’ve run into is that I have the iPhone 14 which is eSIM only and that’s been a bit of a stress as well since there’s no port for a physical SIM