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Bawlk

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I'm looking for information on roaming sim cards within Europe and outwith
Some destintaion like USA, Indonesia, Japan & Turkey.

Who would be a better choice of UK sim only/PAYG or potentially getting a local simcard - Mainly just for data, doesn't need to include calls/text


I can see someone like Smarty offers up 12GB/month in Europe from your allowance
 
I'm looking for information on roaming sim cards within Europe and outwith
Some destintaion like USA, Indonesia, Japan & Turkey.

Who would be a better choice of UK sim only/PAYG or potentially getting a local simcard - Mainly just for data, doesn't need to include calls/text


I can see someone like Smarty offers up 12GB/month in Europe from your allowance
A lot of operators will allow at least _some_ data when roaming, so you should be good.
If you need more get a local sim or try an esim, if your device supports it.
Example, but not limited to :
https://www.esim.net/Travel

If your device doesn't support it you can work around it via www.esim.me
 
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My contract with Uber seems to incorporate my day to day cellphone number with o2.

Over Christmas I used Uber cars in Panama City and had to pay my £6 a day o2 roaming. If had been using an esim to get a better deal than the one from o2 would my Uber app still work.

Similarly PayPal seem to want to text me a six figure number to approve a payment. Would the esim system accept this? Likewise using Google Pay to buy the odd glass of beer.

I'm new to esims so sorry to be so dim. Another query is that I buy the esim deal for 27USD whilst in the US what happens to calls to my o2 number? How do I know they are coming in?

T
 
My contract with Uber seems to incorporate my day to day cellphone number with o2.

Over Christmas I used Uber cars in Panama City and had to pay my £6 a day o2 roaming. If had been using an esim to get a better deal than the one from o2 would my Uber app still work.

Similarly PayPal seem to want to text me a six figure number to approve a payment. Would the esim system accept this? Likewise using Google Pay to buy the odd glass of beer.

I'm new to esims so sorry to be so dim. Another query is that I buy the esim deal for 27USD whilst in the US what happens to calls to my o2 number? How do I know they are coming in?

T
You can change your number in uber to the esim one.
With PayPal you can switch to using auto time-based generared codes as implemented by the likes of andOTP, Google Authenticator and others, all these apps are free.
 
Thanks Lucian,

And what do people do about incoming texts and phone calls to the number that they are normally known by. For example if I was using an American biased esim and my airline altered the flight and texted me. How would I be alerted.
 
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Highly recommend not to mess with UK mobile contracts, UK mobile numbers, or UK SIMs while abroad. (Unless the network gives a guarantee it won't mess up and you have a way to contact them cheaply if it does.)

I think an eSIM is intended to function as a non-physical SIM. The safest way to start is probably keep a physical SIM and add an eSIM to a mobile which supports, and trial as a dual-SIM phone. Once everything is understood, a porting of the main number can be done in the country which issued both SIMs (porting probably only possible between different networks which could make this a non-starter abroad).
 
Tony, like Mike says, perhaps is best to leave the main number alone and evaluate your options for esim as an additional data supplement etc.
 
Thanks Mike and Lucian.

Sound advice. I'm about to move to a Flip 4 so I might experiment when I get it. But no I would not risk porting a number in case I could not get it back to my normal contract.
 
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