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If you caught the July headlines about the US, Canada and Mexico, one question probably stuck. Does any of that change what you pay for data abroad? And do you still need a North America eSIM?
Lena Reinhardt
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Fly to Budva or Tirana in 2026 and your mobile data still costs extra. Roaming in Montenegro and Albania sits outside "Roam like at Home", the EU roaming rule that lets your home plan work in Croatia or Greece at no extra charge. That's the bit that might change first.
Lena Reinhardt
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Most of us remember the eSIM at the gate, not before. You're on the plane by then, no Wi-Fi, the QR code sitting in an email you can't open, and after landing you burn twenty minutes hunting for a hotspot. Motorola eSIM used to be a plain hardware question: does the phone have one or not. (If the...
Aylin Demir
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We set out to document a specific autumn coverage expansion at Simbye. A date, a list of new countries, a price. We couldn't find one. On 2026-08-27, neither the Simbye website nor the eSIM FOX blog carried a dated announcement about new destinations. So there's no headline here, just a dated...
Aylin Demir
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A few weeks back this was forum-rumour territory. Not any more. The Pixel 11 is eSIM only, and has been since launch day. Google showed the line-up on 12 August 2026 and units reached US shelves on 20 August 2026, according to 9to5Google. The bit the headline leaves out: the missing SIM tray is...
Lena Reinhardt
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Buy a local prepaid SIM at Denpasar airport or in an operator store today and you will be asked to scan your face before it activates. That started on 1 July 2026, applies nationwide, and most travel guides still say nothing about it. Arrive with a Bali eSIM already installed, though, and you...
Lena Reinhardt
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A single day of mobile data in New York: €9.95, that's what Telekom's price list used to charge, per the carrier comparison at reisechip.de (as of July 2026). Since 4 February 2026, plenty of Telekom customers pay nothing for that day. Which makes it a decent moment to ask what data roaming...
Aylin Demir
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Scan the QR code that only works once. The hotel wifi chokes on the download. Type the long activation code in by hand. Since spring, tech press has been buzzing about a fix: SGP.32, the GSMA's new eSIM standard. It's real. It just doesn't change anything on your phone yet.
Lena Reinhardt
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Let's get the headline straight first, because plenty of June coverage didn't. On EU roaming Balkans rules, nothing has changed yet. On 4 June 2026 the Council of the European Union authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the six Western Balkans partners. That's the whole decision. No...
Aylin Demir
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Your passport isn't enough anymore. Buy a Thailand SIM card at a counter today and you'll also spend a few seconds in front of a camera checking whether a real person is sitting there.
Jonas Brügger
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A phone without a SIM tray sounds like hardware trivia. It isn't, if you fly abroad a couple of times a year and want data the moment you land.
Lena Reinhardt
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Plenty of articles this year promise new EU roaming rules for 2026. I went through the primary sources instead, the regulation and the Commission's own pages, and found two confirmed changes dated 1 January 2026. Two. Everything else doing the rounds is a proposal, a negotiation, or badly dated.
Aylin Demir
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