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More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In some countries it’s not easy like walking in to a store and getting a prepaid card. You need to have an ID and a local address, probably to prevent bad events which use sims cards. A travel sim could be easier but more expensive.

eSIM is much easier and can be activated using an app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I wanted to do this in Iceland a number of years back, and they needed a local bank account in order to open one.

My Icelandic father-in-law helpfully offered to put it on his own bank account, saying he'd just cancel it at the end of the month. This was acceptable. Gave him like £10 to pay for it.

Went back two years later. You'll never guess what he'd forgotten to do...