Faroe Islands eSIM
Data for Faroe Islands on Hey and Nema, from $6.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- Hey and Nema
- 5G
- yes, standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Faroe Islands
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $6.89 | $6.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $3.96 | $11.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $3.18 | $15.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $2.49 | $24.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $2.24 | $44.89 |
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.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in Faroe Islands on Hey and Nema. 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 Faroe Islands: yes, 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 Faroe Islands
A 500 MB plan for Faroe Islands starts at $0.56, 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 Faroe Islands it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.00.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Faroe Islands 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 Faroe Islands
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 Faroe Islands and it attaches to Hey.
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.
Worth knowing about Faroe Islands
- The EU treaties do not apply to the Faroe Islands. The islands chose to stay outside when Denmark joined in 1973 and remain excluded under article 355(5)(a) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
- Faroese police run two numbers, 112 for an alarm and 114 for everything that is not urgent, and 114 also reaches the station at Vagar airport.
How Faroe Islands compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Hey, Nema
- 5G
- Yes, across all eighteen islands
- Cities with their own page
- 1: Tórshavn
