About Orbislo
Nobody wants an eSIM.
Every travel eSIM on the market sells the same thing: a disposable SIM, per trip, per country, that expires. It is a 2021 product and the whole category has spent five years competing on how many countries the disposable thing covers rather than asking whether it should be disposable at all.
So Orbislo gives you one balance for every trip, and each destination's line installs in one tap. Your gigabytes are a balance you own rather than a ticket that burns. Customers get free rescue data once a month, loaded onto the line they are using when the balance runs out, because being unable to buy data while having no data is the single stupidest problem in travel and nobody had bothered to fix it. And we print the carriers, the typical speeds and the throttle thresholds above the price rather than below it.
What we hold ourselves to
- We publish the throttle threshold as a number, on the buy button, on every plan
- We publish a post mortem for every incident over thirty minutes
- We tell affected customers before they discover a problem themselves
Each of those is uncomfortable, and each is the point. In a category where the top search results for every major brand include the word scam, being boringly, provably honest is the cheapest customer acquisition available.
About the data on this site
The people responsible for each area are named on the pages they own, next to the date that page was last reviewed. If a figure is wrong, there is a person to write to and the correction gets published.
197
Destinations live today
264
Local networks we buy from
6
Destinations with one network only, which we label
Three things we will not do
These are refusals rather than features. Each one is something the category does routinely, and each one costs us.
- We do not pick your language from your IP address. Detection reads the cookie you set, then the Accept-Language header your browser sends, and nothing else. A German in Shanghai gets German.
- We do not print a star rating. The claims on this site are ones you can check instead, such as the throttle number on the buy button.
- We do not expire data. Nothing in the product is engineered to be forfeited, which in this category is free margin that we deleted on purpose.
What the profile does after the first install
Our unlimited day pass runs at full speed to 2 GB a day and then at 1 Mbps. Both numbers sit on the buy button before you pay rather than in a terms document afterwards, and the second one is a speed you can plan around: maps, messaging, boarding passes and email all work at it. When the day rolls over, full speed comes back on its own.
Every plan names the upstream networks it puts you on, so you know before you buy which network you will use. The 6 destinations served by a single usable network are labelled on their own page.
We reach 197 destinations from one balance. Adding a country does not mean buying a new plan. The first time you use your balance there, the app issues that destination's line and you install it in one tap, and most of Europe runs on a single line. After that, refills arrive on the line you already have. The balance stays with your account, spent at each destination's published rate, with no clock running against it.
Questions people ask about us
What does Orbislo actually sell?
Do you choose my language from my location?
Does Orbislo data expire?
Which network will my phone attach to?
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Who wrote this
Jonah Reyes, Standards Editor
Checks every published claim against the source it came from and removes the ones that cannot be shown.
Responsible for
- Editorial standards across the site
- The sources behind every published figure
- Corrections and retractions