It's a fucking pisstake. Next time, get a Turkish eSIM. About £14 for 10GB or £38 for unlimited data, and fast with it. Personally, I use maya.net to get an eSIM and never bother with carriers' roaming, since roaming always seems slow AF compared to a local SIM. Source: 11 months ago

Cell phone use (unlocked phone): My wife’s phone is unlocked and accepts eSIMs (iPhone 14 pro) so we got an eSIM from https://maya.net/ . 10gigs of data, good for one month for about $19USD. There are many options for specific needs. Italy only, is cheaper than one for Europe as a whole. It worked great. It does not come with a local (Rome) phone number, but we didn’t need one. We used WhatsApp to communicate with... Source: about 1 year ago

Way easier to get an esim online at https://maya.net. Source: about 1 year ago

If your phone is eSIM capable, use airalo.com or maya.net . You can set it up before you arrive. Source: about 1 year ago

It happed to me in Costa Rica last month. I went to maya.net that used a different carrier and it work ok. Source: about 1 year ago

I am thinking of porting her US number to Google Voice so that she can keep using it for her US contacts and with Whatsapp (which she's already heavily using with some Dutch student group chats). Should we look into getting an international eSim whereby she can get a Dutch number and but also use in the US? Looking specifically at onesimcard.com but only because that's the first one that came up in a Google... Source: almost 2 years ago