USA Sim for mobile?

mikeishere · 25 Feb 20, 10:16 PM

Does anyone use a USA SIM card in their mobile while in Florida? Is it cheaper when using the MDE app and Universal app etc throughout the day? Or does everyone just use the sim that’s always in their phone from the UK as I’m unsure what to do and I hate changing sims over they so small and annoying haha.

rpmonag · 25 Feb 20, 10:44 PM

We buy T Mobile SIMs on a Tourist Plan. Works out cheaper for us. Others use 3 Plan. I’ve tried both. Prefer T Mobile. Plenty of similar threads on here will give you all the info you need.

nothingless · 25 Feb 20, 11:28 PM

For this trip, I bought a T-Mobile eSIM with their app, it's a digital SIM for iPhone. It gives me unlimited data for $60 plus 10GB via hotspot sharing (so handy for letting DD use the iPad in the car etc). They have cheaper plans too, starting at $40 USD for 10GB data. I've been loving it, so handy to not have to wait for WiFi all the time! Definitely worth it now that we're in Florida for 5 weeks!

mikeishere · 26 Feb 20, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by nothingless

For this trip, I bought a T-Mobile eSIM with their app, it's a digital SIM for iPhone. It gives me unlimited data for $60 plus 10GB via hotspot sharing (so handy for letting DD use the iPad in the car etc). They have cheaper plans too, starting at $40 USD for 10GB data. I've been loving it, so handy to not have to wait for WiFi all the time! Definitely worth it now that we're in Florida for 5 weeks!

And this T-Mobile sim will work even though I’m usually with 02 in UK?

grant_w · 26 Feb 20, 10:02 AM

I get a SIM from 3.
For £10 you can get 4GB data and unlimited calls and texts for 30 days (to UK numbers).

It's worked perfectly fine for us on our last few trips

allymc316 · 26 Feb 20, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by mikeishere

And this T-Mobile sim will work even though I’m usually with 02 in UK?

This is an eSim not a physical sim. For this to work your phone needs to support eSim and also be unlocked to any network. As long as it is then it should work fine.

This is the option i will be using this summer when i am there for 4 weeks

mikeishere · 26 Feb 20, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by allymc316

This is an eSim not a physical sim. For this to work your phone needs to support eSim and also be unlocked to any network. As long as it is then it should work fine.

This is the option i will be using this summer when i am there for 4 weeks

Oh great thanks should be ok then

mikeishere · 26 Feb 20, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by allymc316

This is an eSim not a physical sim. For this to work your phone needs to support eSim and also be unlocked to any network. As long as it is then it should work fine.

This is the option i will be using this summer when i am there for 4 weeks

Actually reading about esims I don’t think my iphone 8s supports esims I might need a physical sim that I can swap over

nothingless · 26 Feb 20, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by mikeishere

Actually reading about esims I don’t think my iphone 8s supports esims I might need a physical sim that I can swap over

Ah bummer - yes that's possible. I have an iPhone 11, so mine supports eSIM. It's definitely the easiest method.

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