Do y'all use eSim or Physical Sim for your phone? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by NotSkynet@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just curious.

I used eSim for a while when I first got a phone that supported eSim, because I wanted to make it harder for a thief to disable the phone tracking, but now my main phone is broken and I'm a bit annoyed at having to chat with customer support for half and hour to activate eSim on another device.

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[-] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Canadian providers all charge about $15 a day to "roam like home". For about $20 I can buy a 30 day 5GB data only plan for Europe. Getting a European phone number doubles the cost as most of those plans have much more data as well. You can buy the plans before you leave, download and install the eSIM so you're ready to go when you arrive.

The wife and I both bought Pixel 7's this year as they support eSIM. We're in England right now. Our cost roaming would have been $600+. Only one of us needed a local phone number, and the has just data, and the cost was maybe $70.

[-] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Canadians are getting robbed. Roaming for me, if I travelled to Canada from the UK, would be £15 a month added to my plan, and I have one of the more expensive providers (EE). That's with the same limits so like 200GB data.

[-] maporita@unilem.org 2 points 1 year ago

If you enable wifi calling before you leave then you can leave your Rogers esim active and use your local sim for data and calls. The advantage is that you still receive sms messages on your Canadian number.

[-] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Rogers won't let you use wifi calling to avoid the roaming charges. I've tried.

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