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by vladgur 1372 days ago
I used Airalo App to buy and refill multiple eSims while travelling through Europe this summer. I had an American Physical sim on my iPhone 11 and 2 eSims at some point with both physical and 1 eSIM being on at one time while the 2nd eSIM was off. When i would arrive in a ne country, I would switch one ESIM off and switch another one on. Note: you do need internet access to load an eSIM onto your phone, but you can preload it prior to arriving in its region
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While clearly the future, in many countries you can only get expensive global eSIMs at the moment.

I’ve spent time in both the UK and Mexico this year and it would have cost 2-5x as much if I couldn’t get use a physical SIM.

that looks awesome tho some of the deals are really bad - e.g. morocco has 1gb for 7 days for 10 usd. I am pretty sure I bought something like 30gb for 15 eur. Same for UK and France, the prices there are just too much and you can get cheaper deals in person.

But again I love the app and hope something like that becomes big enough that the big operators will integrate with it.