Belize eSIM
Data for Belize on Digi and Smart, from $30.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- Digi and Smart
- Typical speed
- 24 Mbps typical, 5 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Belize
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $30.89 | $30.89 | |
| 3 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $23.63 | $70.89 |
Every plan works the moment you land. Unused data returns to your wallet when the line closes, and customers get at least 100 MB of free rescue data a month even at zero balance.
What 24 Mbps actually means in Belize
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Belize: 24 Mbps. That is below the North America median of 34 Mbps, so plan around it rather than being surprised by it.
The tenth percentile is 5 Mbps. That gap between the median and the floor is normal and it is where the frustration lives: the connection is quick most of the time and noticeably slow in the busiest few percent of moments, typically at transport hubs at peak hour.
Maps, messaging, ride hailing and payment apps all work without complaint. Video calls connect but will drop resolution, and streaming is better set to standard definition than left on automatic. Tethering a laptop works for email and documents rather than for calls.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in Belize on Digi and Smart. Your phone is not tied to one of them. When the network you are attached to congests or drops, the profile moves you to the other, and it happens without a prompt and without you noticing anything except that the connection kept working.
This matters more than the headline speed. Almost every travel eSIM sold today resells a single upstream agreement per country, so when that one network has a bad hour you have a bad hour with it and your only option is to buy a second eSIM from somebody else. A profile with more than one network behind it can make a decision you never see.
5G in Belize: 4G only. A well provisioned 4G cell comfortably outruns a congested 5G one, which is why the figure above is throughput rather than a network generation.
What data costs in Belize
A 500 MB plan for Belize starts at $4.94, which is $0.01 a gigabyte. That is the number to compare between providers, because a headline price attached to a different allowance tells you nothing.
The comparison most providers would rather you did not run is cost per gigabyte actually used. Independent surveys of travel data put the share of purchased data lost to expiry between 20 and 35 percent, because a plan that expires on day thirty deletes what you did not get through. Orbislo data has no expiry date, so the gigabyte you paid for is still there on the next trip. At the same headline price that is 25 to 40 percent more usable data, and in Belize it means the effective cost is nearer $0.01 a gigabyte than $0.01.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Belize is to buy slightly less than you think you need and top up if you run out. Topping up takes about ten seconds and does not involve installing anything. Buying too much is the expensive mistake everywhere else and merely a neutral one here.
Landing in Belize
Install before you fly, on your home wifi. The profile downloads while you still have a connection you trust, then sits dormant until you land in Belize and it attaches to Digi.
On landing there is one thing to check: data roaming has to be switched on for the Orbislo line. It is off by default on both iOS and Android, and it has nothing to do with roaming charges here, because the plan is prepaid and there is no bill to run up. Turn it on for the Orbislo line and leave it off for your home line, and your home number keeps working for calls and bank codes without costing anything.
Coverage across Belize
The figures above cover Belize as a whole, and a national figure hides real variation. We publish separate figures for San Pedro and Belize City, because the difference between a capital and a coastal town is usually larger than the difference between two countries.
Outside the cities, coverage follows the same pattern it does everywhere: the main roads and the tourist corridors are well served, and it thins in the mountains and on the water. No travel eSIM changes that, because it is the same physical network the local population uses. What a multi network profile changes is which of the available towers you get to use.
What is restricted in Belize
- Satellite internet: The Public Utilities Commission refused Starlink Belize a class licence in January 2025. End users may import and operate Starlink terminals only at fixed locations that are unserved or underserved, on vessels and aircraft under earth station in motion terms, or during a natural disaster when other providers cannot deliver emergency service. Anyone already running the equipment had 60 days to register it with the PUC.
Worth knowing about Belize
- Section 45 of the Telecommunications Act bars any provider from charging for access to emergency numbers, and access has to be kept open at all times whether or not the customer has paid.
- Equipment approval runs under Statutory Instrument No. 152 of 2002. The Public Utilities Commission wants a type approval certificate from the country of origin, technical specifications and test reports, and a fee of 500 US dollars for each unit.
- Smart activates an eSIM only over the counter at one of its showrooms, and its system switches off an eSIM number after 60 days without activity. A tourist line ends when its allotted period runs out.
How Belize compares across North America
- Regional typical speed
- 33 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Digi, Smart
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Nicaragua, 26 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 2: San Pedro, Belize City
