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More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs
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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
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I have never used an eSIM, but I'd like to know about them. Can anyone explain what are some reasons to use it?
I was in Japan 1 week ago. I couldn't get roaming to work with my carrier mint (which may not have been there fault, it's a long story) but I needed data or I would have no way to navigate Tokyo. I paid $25 for 14 days of unlimited 4G data in all of Japan, I downloaded an esim, boom now I have data on my phone again. Easy.
I did all of this on free airport WiFi.
And once u have a sim on ur phone u can switch which sims you have active at a givin time, which had no value to me, but could be useful for other, especially someone who may travel frequently.
I pay more than that as my regular rate.
The City pays me an $80/month cell stipend for a work phone and the only reason it even covers my work phone is because I had an old backup phone I was able to activate.
If it weren't a public job I'd just use it towards my regular phone bill, but I don't want my personal phone to be subject to Open Records.
Yeah I pay $20 a month with mint. They're a killer provider, u get a lot for almost nothing.