Guyana eSIM
Data for Guyana on GTT and Digicel, from $18.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- GTT and Digicel
- Typical speed
- 22 Mbps typical, 5 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Guyana
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $18.89 | $18.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $12.96 | $38.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $13.58 | $67.89 |
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 22 Mbps actually means in Guyana
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Guyana: 22 Mbps. That is below the South America median of 34 Mbps, so plan around it rather than being surprised by it.
The tenth percentile is 5 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.
Maps, messaging, ride hailing and payment apps all work without complaint. Video calls connect but will drop resolution, and streaming is better set to standard definition than left on automatic. Tethering a laptop works for email and documents rather than for calls.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in Guyana on GTT and Digicel. 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 Guyana: 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 Guyana
A 500 MB plan for Guyana starts at $3.08, 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 Guyana it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.01.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Guyana 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 Guyana
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 Guyana and it attaches to GTT.
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.
Getting a local SIM in Guyana
A mobile operator may not activate or reactivate a SIM card, or let a handset onto its network, until it has recorded the number, the IMEI of the handset that will be used with it, and the holder's full name, age, national identity or passport number and residential, business and postal address. The identity has to be verified against the documents themselves and the record kept for five years.
Worth knowing about Guyana
- A dealer who sells or hands over a SIM card or a handset has to take a self attested passport size photograph from the buyer, check it against an identity document, keep the file for five years and pass the details to the network.
- A line whose details were never recorded keeps nothing but emergency calls, calls to customer care and the calls needed to complete the registration itself, until the record is filled in.
How Guyana compares across South America
- Regional typical speed
- 33.5 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, GTT, Digicel
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Bolivia, 27 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 1: Georgetown
