Travel the world with your smart phone and an eSIM

In the past we either had to pay exorbitant data roaming fees to use our mobile phone overseas, or suffer the inconvenience of purchasing a separate SIM card for each of the countries we visited.  Luckily modern smart phones now have the ability to use a virtual SIM card known as an eSIM.  I’ve posted about eSIMs before – just enter eSIM into the Search field to find those articles.  We still need to acquire an eSIM for each country that we intend to visit, however we won’t have the inconvenience of having to physically swap SIM cards, plus we can continue to use our existing SIM at the same time as the eSIM. Read more about how to use eSIM and the companies that support them in the Android Police article here. The article talks about Android phones, but is equally relevant to other phones. There are some eSIM companies that offer a single eSIM that cover multiple countries in Europe, making the process of travelling between them even easier.  You might find the following YouTube video useful as it compares many of the popular eSIMs available today.