South African travelers can now enjoy affordable international data thanks to eSIM services. This article highlights the ease of using eSIMs from providers like Saily and Airalo, showcasing their user-friendly apps and competitive data bundles.
South Africa ns can finally say goodbye to expensive international data roaming rates, thanks to a range of companies now providing eSIMs targeted at users travelling overseas. We tested two of these providers — Saily and Airalo — on a trip to Japan over December and found the process of installing an eSIM, buying data bundles, and using the service quick and easy. Both Saily and Airalo require you to download their respective apps to your smartphone to get started.
After you have downloaded the app of your choice and created a user account, you can select from a long list of countries in which they provide mobile data services. Hundreds of countries are available on both platforms, with data bundles starting at 1GB — valid for seven days — and going up to 20GB — valid for 30 days.This effectively let us purchase 25GB for R431 — which comes to R17.24 per GB. Once we had selected the data bundles we wanted to use in Japan, each app provided instructions on how to install an eSIM that would be linked to the data bundle. For our tests, an iPhone 15 Pro was used with the Saily app, while an iPhone 16 was used with the Airalo app. In both cases, the installation was quick and simple. The apps provided instructions on installing the eSIMs, which took a few taps and under two minutes to complete. Once we had installed the eSIMs, we then turned them on when we landed in Japan and the data bundles were automatically activated. We also set our travel eSIMs to be the mobile data connection on each phone — ensuring our South African SIMs did not consume mobile data. The table below shows the prices for the Saily and Airalo data bundles which were available for use in Japan at the time of writing.On an iPhone, turning an eSIM on or off is done by navigating to Settings >Mobile Service >SIMs. Selecting a SIM to be the primary provider of mobile data is done by navigating to Settings >Mobile Service >Mobile Dat
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