Guinea-Bissau eSIM
Data for Guinea-Bissau on Orange and Telecel, from $16.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- Orange and Telecel
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Guinea-Bissau
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $16.89 | $16.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $12.63 | $37.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $11.38 | $56.89 |
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 Guinea-Bissau on Orange and Telecel. 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 Guinea-Bissau: 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 Guinea-Bissau
A 500 MB plan for Guinea-Bissau starts at $3.34, 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 Guinea-Bissau it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.01.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Guinea-Bissau 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 Guinea-Bissau
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 Guinea-Bissau and it attaches to Orange.
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 Guinea-Bissau
- Running a radiocommunication network or station in Guinea-Bissau needs a radio licence from ARN under Decree 3 of 2021, which replaced legislation dating from 1940. Military and security networks fall outside it, and ARN may waive licensing case by case for technical trials and scientific study.
- Terminal equipment used or sold in Guinea-Bissau has to carry an ARN homologation certificate under article 106 of Law 5/2010. Since August 2025 whoever applies for one must name a local representative resident in the country to act as the single contact point with the regulator.
- Supplying internet access in Guinea-Bissau without a licence draws fines and criminal proceedings. ARN gave unlicensed providers ten days in July 2026 to dismantle their equipment, after which it is seized and forfeited to the State.
How Guinea-Bissau compares across Africa
- Regional typical speed
- 29.5 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Orange, Telecel
- 5G
- No, LTE only
- Cities with their own page
- 1: Bissau
