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

1. Turkey isn't in the EU, and you'll notice that on your bill

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

In Spain or Italy, many contracts let you use your phone just like at home because those countries are in the EU. Turkey isn't. So 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 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 off roaming, the roaming bill just keeps running. Some holidaymakers have come home after two weeks with a bill of up to €3,000.

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2. Buying locally, you pay more as a tourist 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 only understand half of it, and all you really want is to get to your hotel. Then he names a price and you say yes, because you have no idea what a SIM card normally costs in Turkey.

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 in Turkey, the eSIM connects itself to the Turkish Turk Telekom network, just like a SIM card you'd bought in Turkey. No queuing, no haggling, and no trusting someone you can't understand.

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3. Your data runs out faster than you think

You bought 30 gigabytes locally and think: “That's easily enough for two weeks.” Three days later, a message pops up saying your data is used up.

That's because you use far more internet on holiday than at home. At home you're on Wi-Fi all day without even noticing. On holiday, that Wi-Fi isn't there. Every story, every route to the beach, every video call home and every photo in the family group chat goes through your mobile data. And when the data's gone, it's back to the shop, and back to paying.

With the easysimy eSIM your data never runs out, because every one of our Turkey plans comes with unlimited data. You can browse, stream and make calls as much as you like. The internet never runs dry, and you never have to top up.

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

4. With a Turkish SIM card, suddenly nobody can reach you

Has this ever happened to you? You pop a Turkish 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 they can't reach you any more.

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 usual number.

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

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

Honestly: how often have you landed and gone straight into a queue? Show your passport, fill in a form, wait. The taxi's waiting outside, and you're waiting inside.

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

Once you've landed, you switch off flight mode. Your phone connects to the Turkish network by itself, and you're online. Only at that moment does the eSIM's validity start, not when you buy it. So you can set up the eSIM days or weeks before your holiday, no rush at all.

And if the eSIM ever doesn't work: easysimy is a German company. You get help around 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.