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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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Most Canadian carriers do a "use your plan like you would at home" but the price for it is about USD 10 per day, which is a huge cost compared to many travel eSIMs or a local SIM/eSiM.
Yeah, I keep that for emergencies (you only pay if you use it) and also turn my Telus on occasionally to check text messages and do two factor authentication (incoming texts are free), but CAD$15 a day to "roam like home" is more expensive than an entire month with a local SIM in many countries.
And yet still a vast improvement on the old model of "you went off airplane mode, please sell your plasma while applying for a second mortgage."
Haha true!