I’m visiting for two weeks and roaming prices are insane, I’m considering getting a prepaid SIM-card. Can I easily grab one in any shop, e.g. at the airport/Walmart? What are the prices? Unlimited data would be nice, but I can survive with a few GBs too, I’d probably need it mainly for navigation.

  • Extras@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    My bad its like 3am right now so take what i say with salt. So usually these mvnos offer coverage maps so use that tool to check out the area. As for what main options you have i think it would be:

    • metropcs: looks expensive and cant find an option for single lines, sucks for them
    • Boost: 15$ per month for 5gb, 25 for unlimited
    • Tello: pretty flexible with your plans options so pick and choose but 29$ for unlimited. sim card can only be purchased via their online store
    • us mobile: uses both verizon and tmobiles network 25$ for unlimited. sim card can only be purchased via their online store

    Out of the options I would probably go with boost since it has the best chance at being found at a store and us mobile if you can have it delievered to an address within the states. Theres probably other smaller mvnos that uses tmobiles network so keep doing some resesrch

    Edit: I read metro’s website wrong

    • BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyzOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the great summary! eSIM is unfortunately not an option (it wasn’t really trending yet two years ago), now I just have to check which of these providers use the same bands as my phone does.