Cyprus eSIM
Data for Cyprus on Cyta and Epic, from $5.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- Cyta and Epic
- Typical speed
- 66 Mbps typical, 17 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- yes, non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Cyprus
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $5.89 | $5.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $2.63 | $7.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $1.98 | $9.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $1.49 | $14.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $1.39 | $27.89 | |
| 50 GB | Never expires | $1.54 | $76.89 |
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 66 Mbps actually means in Cyprus
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Cyprus: 66 Mbps. That sits close to the Europe median of 71 Mbps, which makes Cyprus an unremarkable place to be connected, in the good sense.
The tenth percentile is 17 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.
That is enough for everything most travellers do: maps, messaging, video calls, streaming at high definition, and tethering a laptop for ordinary work. It is not enough to be casual about uploading a day of raw photographs.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in Cyprus on Cyta and Epic. 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 Cyprus: yes, non standalone. Worth knowing that 5G on a travel profile is normal rather than special, and that the tenth percentile above is the number that will decide how the trip feels, not the generation label in the status bar.
What data costs in Cyprus
A 500 MB plan for Cyprus starts at $0.32, which is $0.00 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 Cyprus it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.00.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Cyprus 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 Cyprus
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 Cyprus and it attaches to Cyta.
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 Cyprus
The figures above cover Cyprus as a whole, and a national figure hides real variation. We publish separate figures for Nicosia, Paphos and Limassol, 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.
Getting a local SIM in Cyprus
A prepaid SIM or eSIM is not activated until the provider holds the buyer's identity details and a signed declaration, and the buyer has to show the original documents to the seller for checking. A visitor is registered on a passport number, and an identity card number or a passport number is accepted from a European Union national.
Worth knowing about Cyprus
- Prepaid cards may only be sold by the provider itself or by an authorised agent that runs the identity check, and the law rules out a kiosk, a supermarket or a mini market acting as that agent. A card cannot be bought over the counter with the groceries.
- Where the person using the card is not the person who bought it, the buyer has to declare the user's identity details to the provider and update them whenever the user changes, and failing to do so is a criminal offence.
- Identity records are deleted three months after a prepaid line was last used, and the card is cancelled or switched off before that happens. Once the record is gone the holder has to submit the details again to bring the line back.
- Anyone who already held an anonymous prepaid SIM or eSIM had 18 months from 10 May 2024 to declare their identity to the provider. An anonymous line left undeclared is cut off at once, even if credit has been paid, and comes back only once the details are declared.
- The regulator counted 22,662 fewer prepaid users in the second half of 2025 than a year earlier, mainly because of the mandatory identification of prepaid numbers, which had to be completed by November 2025. The share of contract lines rose over the same period.
- Giving false identity details when buying a prepaid SIM or eSIM is a criminal offence carrying up to five years in prison, a fine of up to 50,000 euros, or both. A prepaid contract cannot be signed with a minor, though a minor can be declared as the user.
- A lost or stolen prepaid SIM or eSIM must be reported to the provider immediately, and the provider must stop the service. Failing to report it can bring up to a year in prison or a fine of up to 10,000 euros. Passing the card to someone else must also be notified.
- CY-Alert, a cell broadcast warning system, went live on 2 June 2026. Alerts reach every phone in the affected area whatever the network or the country of the SIM, with no app or internet connection needed, and they override silent mode. The phone's software must be up to date.
- The emergency number for ambulance, fire and police is 112. British travel advice asks visitors to make sure their phone can receive emergency alerts during the wildfire season, which runs from April to October.
- Epic treats the areas not under the government's effective control as a separate roaming destination. Its customers must switch on a roaming service before connecting to another network there, post-paid use is charged outside the normal bundle, and customers are told to switch it off again on return.
How Cyprus compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Cyta, Epic
- 5G
- Yes, non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Slovakia, 67 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Czechia, 64 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 3: Nicosia, Paphos, Limassol
