What have other cheapies done for data while in America. I am there for 2 weeks and hope to hotspot or similar to our car while we embark on a a road trip.
Is the best options to just buy a SIM on arrival and buy a data package?
Data in the USA
L03Sc on 23/01/2024 - 11:13
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Used Airalo in Italy and it was easy as. I was in the US for a month and got a T-mobile e-sim, but for two weeks I think Airalo would probably be more cost efficient!
If you have a capable phone I second going the e-sim route. I've used Ubigi a few times and it's been great.
US mobile Esim if you want a true US Sim card with decent speeds and full 5G support
Didn't like the "Traveller Esims" because of the countries they route the data thru
Google FI is free for 7 days, could you do free trials on 2 different phones?
Yeah, I might do this. I think you need an American google account (easy enough to do) and US CC, wise should be fine for this.
I used wise and it worked fine, just used hotel as our address
I just got back from the states and used https://www.airalo.com/ as an e-sim - was $13USD for 10GB of Data - it used T-Mobile/Verizon and I had LTE coverage most of the time.
One NZ roaming was absolutely useless
edit: here is a direct link to the US e-sim page - https://www.airalo.com/united-states-esim/change-30days-10gb