roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Logistics planning for the Big Tour continues. We'll be abroad for 4-5 months, in Europe but not all in the EU.
Mobile operators all apply some sort of "fair usage" restriction to their charges whilst abroad.
Here's Lebara (who look best to me):
https://www.lebara.co.uk/en/roaming/roaming-rate-finder.html
Lebara Roam Like Home scheme is designed for customers who primarily live in the UK and ideal for short trips to other places in the EU or India. To safeguard against abuse, if your roaming usage is greater than usage in the UK over any continuous 120 day period, you will be subject to a surcharge of 0.20p/MB (equivalent to £2/GB) for data, 0.04p/sec (equivalent to 2.4p/min) for outgoing calls, 0.01p/sec (equivalent to 0.6p/min) for incoming calls and 0.8p for sending an SMS
Which seems fairly reasonable (my days usage is typically <2GB monthly). And we'd definitely be caught by this. You can buy individual country add ons for the countries not covered by it.
Other operators apply whopping charges, seemingly as high as £100/GB(!) if you breach their policy.
There's also an option of an esim for data, airola look best, who charge only $59 for 10GB for 6 months world wide. But it's only data, not calls/ texts.
https://www.airalo.com/global-esim
My objective isn't to get something super- cheap, only to avoid getting totally stiffed by outrageous charges by accident, or completely cut off for breaching policy.
I think go with Lebara but also buy the global airola esim. The esim is probably cheaper than lebara top ups to cover the countries outside of their included ones and would mitigate their fair usage extras too.
Any advice?
Mobile operators all apply some sort of "fair usage" restriction to their charges whilst abroad.
Here's Lebara (who look best to me):
https://www.lebara.co.uk/en/roaming/roaming-rate-finder.html
Lebara Roam Like Home scheme is designed for customers who primarily live in the UK and ideal for short trips to other places in the EU or India. To safeguard against abuse, if your roaming usage is greater than usage in the UK over any continuous 120 day period, you will be subject to a surcharge of 0.20p/MB (equivalent to £2/GB) for data, 0.04p/sec (equivalent to 2.4p/min) for outgoing calls, 0.01p/sec (equivalent to 0.6p/min) for incoming calls and 0.8p for sending an SMS
Which seems fairly reasonable (my days usage is typically <2GB monthly). And we'd definitely be caught by this. You can buy individual country add ons for the countries not covered by it.
Other operators apply whopping charges, seemingly as high as £100/GB(!) if you breach their policy.
There's also an option of an esim for data, airola look best, who charge only $59 for 10GB for 6 months world wide. But it's only data, not calls/ texts.
https://www.airalo.com/global-esim
My objective isn't to get something super- cheap, only to avoid getting totally stiffed by outrageous charges by accident, or completely cut off for breaching policy.
I think go with Lebara but also buy the global airola esim. The esim is probably cheaper than lebara top ups to cover the countries outside of their included ones and would mitigate their fair usage extras too.
Any advice?