Latvia eSIM
Data for Latvia on LMT and Tele2, from $5.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- LMT and Tele2
- Typical speed
- 82 Mbps typical, 24 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- yes, non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Latvia
| 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 | $1.54 | $76.89 |
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 82 Mbps actually means in Latvia
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Latvia: 82 Mbps. That sits close to the Europe median of 71 Mbps, which makes Latvia an unremarkable place to be connected, in the good sense.
The tenth percentile is 24 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 Latvia on LMT and Tele2. 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 Latvia: 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 Latvia
A 1 GB plan for Latvia 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 Latvia it means the effective cost is nearer $4.24 a gigabyte than $5.89.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Latvia 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 Latvia
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 Latvia and it attaches to LMT.
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 Latvia
The figures above cover Latvia as a whole, and a national figure hides real variation. We publish separate figures for Riga and Jurmala, 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.
Getting a local SIM in Latvia
A local prepaid line asks for no identity document. A new number is bought and switched on over the internet with nothing beyond an email address and a payment, and the starter kit terms name no document at any point in the purchase.
What is restricted in Latvia
- Website blocking: The National Electronic Mass Media Council can restrict access to websites that carry television without a retransmission permit, threaten national security, are linked to people under EU sanctions, sell unlicensed access devices or infringe copyright. It restricted 399 domains in 2025, 191 of them on national security grounds.
Worth knowing about Latvia
- Sending text messages from abroad is switched off on a new prepaid line as a fraud measure. The block is lifted only by calling the operator and identifying the connection, which is worth doing before leaving the country rather than after.
- Latvia sits inside the roam like at home regime, so a line from another European Union country, from Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway carries its domestic allowance here at no surcharge.
- Calls to 112 are free from any fixed or mobile phone, and texting 112 is free as well. The 112 Latvija app can start the call or help structure a text message to the Emergency Response Centre.
- Latvia's 112 dispatchers never make the first call. They ring back only after a dropped call or to check details, and they never ask for a personal identity code or a bank account number, so any caller who does is not from 112.
- An LMT Karte prepaid number that is not topped up keeps its advance validity for 60 days, followed by another 60 days in which it can still receive calls and text messages.
- LMT counts Ukraine and Moldova in its EEA+ zone together with the EU countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, so an LMT Karte's EEA+ call rates and data allowances apply in those two countries as well.
- Near the borders with Russia and Belarus a phone can pick up a network from across the border, and neither country falls under EU roaming rules. Choosing a Latvian network manually in the phone settings stops this from happening.
How Latvia compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, LMT, Tele2
- 5G
- Yes, non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Monaco, 84 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Iceland, 81 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 2: Riga, Jurmala
