5 reasons you could come home from holiday to a €3,000 phone bill, and how to avoid it

1. Outside the EU your mobile contract doesn't apply, and you'll notice it on your bill

Sound familiar? You land, switch your phone on, and moments later a text arrives from your provider: “Welcome abroad. Using mobile data costs …”

In Spain or Italy you can usually use your phone just like at home, because those countries are part of the EU. Turkey, Egypt, Thailand and the USA aren't. That's why your home mobile contract doesn't apply there, and every bit of internet costs extra. Often you're even charged per megabyte, and a single video can easily be several hundred megabytes.

The dangerous part: your phone uses the internet even when you're not doing anything. Apps download updates in the background, photos get pushed to the cloud, messages come in. If you don't switch roaming off, the roaming bill just keeps on ticking. Some holidaymakers have come home after two weeks to a bill of up to €3,000.

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2. As a tourist you pay more locally and get less

Picture this: you've just landed and you're standing at the little SIM card counter in the airport. The seller barely speaks English, you understand about half of it, and all you really want is to get to your hotel. Then he tells you a price, and you say yes, because you've no idea what a SIM card normally costs there.

That's exactly what many of these shops count on. Tourists don't know the prices, so they pay more than locals and often get just a few gigabytes for it. €30 or €40 for a small data package is nothing unusual.

With our easysimy eSIM you don't pay that tourist premium. You buy the eSIM in our shop before your flight, at a fixed price you know in advance. When you land at your destination, the eSIM connects itself to a local network, just like a SIM card you'd have bought there. No queuing, no haggling, and no having to trust someone you can't understand.

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3. With easysimy you get unlimited internet, and that changes everything

You've bought 30 gigabytes locally and think: “That's easily enough for two weeks.” Three days later, a message pops up telling you your data is used up. From then on, every photo comes with a mental calculation of whether you've got enough data left.

With the easysimy eSIM there's no data allowance that can run out. Unlimited really does mean unlimited with us: you can leave Google Maps running all day, upload every story, stream a series in the hotel in the evening and video call your family for as long as you like.

And if your partner or kids need internet too, you simply open a hotspot and share your unlimited internet. No extra charge, no topping up, no walking back to the SIM card shop. You book once for your travel days and never think about megabytes on holiday again.

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Plans for 3, 5, 7, 10, 15 or 30 days mean you get exactly the length your holiday needs. And whichever destination and length you choose, the internet is unlimited on every plan.

4. With a local SIM card from your holiday destination, you're suddenly unreachable

Has this ever happened to you? You pop a foreign SIM card into your phone and put your own card in the hotel safe. Suddenly WhatsApp asks whether you want to change your number. Your family messages you, and nothing gets through, because you're no longer reachable for them.

That happens because a normal SIM card only has one slot in your phone. Put a new one in and the old one is out, and with the old card goes your own number too.

The easysimy eSIM works differently. It isn't a plastic card; it arrives by email on your phone and is simply saved alongside your existing SIM. Your own SIM card stays in, your number stays, WhatsApp stays. The easysimy eSIM only handles the internet; your calls and messages carry on just as they always have.

5. You're already online the moment you step off the plane

Honestly: how many times have you landed and found yourself straight in a queue? Show your passport, fill in a form, wait. The taxi is waiting outside and you're waiting inside.

With the easysimy eSIM it's this simple: you order the eSIM from us and immediately get an email with a QR code. You scan the QR code with your phone at home, which takes around five minutes. After that, there's nothing more to do. The eSIM just waits on your phone until you land at your destination.

Once you've landed, you switch off flight mode. Your phone connects itself to the local network, and you're online. Only at that moment does the eSIM's validity period start, not at purchase. So you can set up the eSIM days or even weeks before your holiday, completely stress-free.

And if the eSIM ever doesn't work: easysimy is a German company. You get help round the clock, even in the middle of your holiday. If the easysimy eSIM doesn't work or isn't compatible with your phone, you get your money back within 30 days.