Travel guides
Connectivity tips, country deep-dives, and how to travel data-light.
kbps, Mbps and what they mean in real life: what chat, maps, music and video actually need, from a 128 kbps crawl to a comfortable 5 Mbps.
Guam has LTE island-wide and 5G in Tumon Bay and Hagåtña, but your US plan may not cover it. How much data a trip needs, and why an eSIM beats roaming.
See a carrier name you don't recognize when you land? That's normal. How eSIM roaming networks get picked, and how to check yours before you fly.
Luanda's rebuilt waterfront, the drive to Kalandula Falls, the desert coast at Namibe. How Angola's two networks really cover it, plus a realistic data budget.
Connected one minute, gone the next? A dropping eSIM almost always comes down to one phone setting, not a broken profile. Here's the cause and the fastest fix.
Two small islands off Gabon, one plan: which networks reach São Tomé town and Príncipe's Santo António, how much data you need, and where the signal drops.
Installed a new eSIM every trip and hit a wall? How many profiles your phone can store, how that differs from how many run at once, and what to delete first.
Low Data Mode and Data Saver make a plan last longer, but only if you know what they switch off. Here's exactly that, plus how to enable it for your eSIM line.
Two islands, one plan: which networks reach furthest, how much data Carnival actually takes, and how to stay online from Port of Spain to Tobago's reefs.
Argentina runs from Iguazú Falls to Tierra del Fuego, here's which networks reach furthest, a realistic data budget, and where the signal actually thins out.
Opened Settings and your travel eSIM just isn't there? It's almost never broken, a specific action removed it. Here's the cause and the fastest way back.
Colombia packs Andes, Caribbean coast and Amazon into one country, and coverage splits the same way. How much data to buy, and where there's no signal.