Guadeloupe eSIM
Data for Guadeloupe on Orange Caraïbe, SFR Caraïbe, Digicel and Free Caraïbe, from $5.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- Orange Caraïbe, SFR Caraïbe, Digicel and Free Caraïbe
- Typical speed
- 46.2 Mbps typical, 3.5 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- yes, standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Guadeloupe
| 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 |
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 46.2 Mbps actually means in Guadeloupe
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Guadeloupe: 46.2 Mbps. That puts Guadeloupe well above the Caribbean median of 37.6 Mbps.
The tenth percentile drops to 3.5 Mbps, a long way below the median. In practice that means Guadeloupe is quick when the cell is quiet and difficult when it is not. Download your maps and your boarding passes before you need them.
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 Guadeloupe on Orange Caraïbe, SFR Caraïbe, Digicel and Free Caraïbe. 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 Guadeloupe: 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 Guadeloupe
A 1 GB plan for Guadeloupe starts at $5.89, which is $5.89 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 Guadeloupe it means the effective cost is nearer $4.24 a gigabyte than $5.89.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Guadeloupe 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 Guadeloupe
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 Guadeloupe and it attaches to Orange Caraïbe.
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 Guadeloupe
- ARCEP treats Guadeloupe as a separate market from mainland France, and the European roaming regulation does not apply to roaming inside French territory.
- Article L.34-10 of the French postal and electronic communications code extends the European roaming rules to travel between French territories and names Guadeloupe among them, which ends retail roaming fees on a French plan here.
- 112 is free to call in Guadeloupe from any fixed or mobile phone, needs no credit and works with a SIM from any European operator. A traveller calling it can be put through to an operator who speaks their language.
- The local emergency numbers are 15 for the SAMU medical service, 17 for the police or gendarmerie and 18 for the fire brigade. Deaf and hard of hearing callers can reach 114 by video, chat, SMS or fax at any hour.
- FR-Alert, the state warning system, sends alerts to every mobile phone in the affected area that is connected to a network, whatever phone it is. Nobody needs to sign up, and it has run across overseas France since June 2022.
- FR-Alert cell broadcast messages travel over 4G and appear even on a locked or silenced phone, but never on one that is switched off or in airplane mode. Alerts can be issued in several languages in areas popular with tourists.
- On ferries and planes, EU roaming rules protect a phone only while it is connected to a land based mobile network. Service provided through a satellite system falls outside those rules and is billed with no price cap.
How Guadeloupe compares across Caribbean
- Regional typical speed
- 37.6 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 4, Orange Caraïbe, SFR Caraïbe, Digicel, Free Caraïbe
- 5G
- Yes, in Pointe-a-Pitre, Les Abymes, Baie-Mahault and Le Gosier, on Orange and SFR only
- Next fastest nearby
- Puerto Rico, 56 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Martinique, 46.2 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 1: Les Abymes
