Denmark eSIM
Data for Denmark on TDC and Telenor, from $5.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- TDC and Telenor
- Typical speed
- 88 Mbps typical, 27 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- yes, non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Denmark
| 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 | $1.19 | $23.89 | |
| 50 GB | Never expires | $1.20 | $59.89 |
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 88 Mbps actually means in Denmark
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Denmark: 88 Mbps. That puts Denmark well above the Europe median of 71 Mbps.
The tenth percentile is 27 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.
At these speeds nothing on a phone is limited by the connection. Video calls are comfortable, a laptop can be tethered for a full working day, and large photo backups finish without planning around them.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in Denmark on TDC and Telenor. 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 Denmark: 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 Denmark
A 500 MB plan for Denmark 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 Denmark it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.00.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Denmark 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 Denmark
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 Denmark and it attaches to TDC.
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 Denmark
The figures above cover Denmark as a whole, and a national figure hides real variation. We publish separate figures for Copenhagen and Aarhus, 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 Denmark
- Signal boosters: Using a mobile signal booster or repeater without an agreement with the mobile operator breaks section 6 of the Danish frequency act and can be punished with a fine. The regulator cannot license one, because operators hold the frequencies across Denmark and its waters.
Worth knowing about Denmark
- 112 reaches the emergency services free from any telephone in the country, including a handset with no SIM card in it at all and a prepaid line with nothing left on the account.
- Operators have to block mobile data automatically once the bill for it reaches about 465 kroner, with a warning text sent at 80 percent of that ceiling, and the same ceiling is triggered outside the European Union as well as inside it.
- Roam like at home covers the European Union countries plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but no operator is obliged to offer roaming at all. A purely domestic subscription, barred from working abroad, is allowed.
- 114 is the police's national service number for matters that are not urgent. It connects to the first available police service centre anywhere in the country, while 112 stays reserved for situations that need urgent help.
- A 112 call from a mobile automatically shows the emergency centre which mast it came through, even for an unlisted number. Android phones also send precise GPS location by default, the regulator recommends leaving that on, and iPhones send GPS data through Apple's equivalent feature.
- Roam like at home applies on a ship or plane only while the phone is connected to a land based mobile network. Onboard systems that connect through satellite are outside the rules, and calls, texts and data over them usually cost far more than normal prices.
- Onboard mobile systems on ships may only operate more than two nautical miles from the coast and must be switched off closer in, for example in port. Several operators block satellite data by default, but that block does not cover calls or texts sent by satellite.
- A phone reported stolen to the police has its IMEI registered first with the operator and then in the international database run by the GSM Association, after which it is refused on mobile networks in Denmark and abroad. Only the person who reported it can have the entry removed, through the police.
- Scam callers often spoof an eight digit Danish number so the call looks local. The regulator advises never calling back unknown foreign numbers and never giving personal details to a caller, and says simply answering such a call does not compromise the phone.
- Police run two of Denmark's 112 emergency centres, in Aarhus and Slagelse, with specially trained officers answering calls. The third, for Greater Copenhagen, is owned by the local councils and the Capital Region and staffed by the capital's fire and rescue service.
- Danish law lets the justice ministry order operators to retain all traffic data when it finds a serious and real threat to national security. The first such order ran from 30 March 2022 to 29 March 2023, based on threat assessments that included Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
How Denmark compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, TDC, Telenor
- 5G
- Yes, non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Romania, 89 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Italy, 88 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 2: Copenhagen, Aarhus
