Watch out: roaming costs are a thing of the past in the EU, not in Europe. Vistising Switzerland, the UK, and various other European countries outside of the (expanded) EU area can/will cause roaming charges.
This can be especially annoying when near the border, as your phone can easily pick up a non-EU cell tower and you’ve probably enabled roaming already (as you are in a different country after all). With a bad carrier combo this can cost you whole euros per call or text.
You’ll probably never run into this problem, but with how good we’ve got it here in the EU, it’s easy to forget about the existence of roaming costs as a tourist.
The travel eSIMs are a bit different. My Orange plan covers Turkey and the UK, which I specifically wanted, and probably Switzerland as well. For my wife, I needed to get a “world” plan that covered Turkey, otherwise the Europe plan would have covered the UK.
But that’s an important point. The travel plans are NOT the same as regular plans in some ways.
Watch out: roaming costs are a thing of the past in the EU, not in Europe. Vistising Switzerland, the UK, and various other European countries outside of the (expanded) EU area can/will cause roaming charges.
This can be especially annoying when near the border, as your phone can easily pick up a non-EU cell tower and you’ve probably enabled roaming already (as you are in a different country after all). With a bad carrier combo this can cost you whole euros per call or text.
You’ll probably never run into this problem, but with how good we’ve got it here in the EU, it’s easy to forget about the existence of roaming costs as a tourist.
The travel eSIMs are a bit different. My Orange plan covers Turkey and the UK, which I specifically wanted, and probably Switzerland as well. For my wife, I needed to get a “world” plan that covered Turkey, otherwise the Europe plan would have covered the UK.
But that’s an important point. The travel plans are NOT the same as regular plans in some ways.