Liberia eSIM
Data for Liberia on Orange Liberia and Lonestar Cell MTN, 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 Liberia and Lonestar Cell MTN
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Liberia
| 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 Liberia on Orange Liberia and Lonestar Cell MTN. 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 Liberia: 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 Liberia
A 1 GB plan for Liberia starts at $16.89, which is $16.89 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 Liberia it means the effective cost is nearer $12.16 a gigabyte than $16.89.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Liberia 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 Liberia
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 Liberia and it attaches to Orange Liberia.
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 Liberia
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 Liberia
Registration is done before the card works: no provider may activate a new SIM until it has recorded the subscriber's full name, date and place of birth, nationality, address, occupation, a facial image and a verifiable government issued identification. A passport is accepted from a foreign national staying ninety days or less.
Worth knowing about Liberia
- A line registered on a foreign passport is deactivated after ninety days. It comes back only on production of a verifiable Liberian government identification or proof of an extended stay, and the provider has to tell the visitor this at the point of registration.
- The regulator is building a central IMEI registry and is consulting the public on the rules for it. Users are told to dial *#06#, write the fifteen digit number down and keep it private, because a handset reported stolen to the authority is blocked from further use.
How Liberia compares across Africa
- Regional typical speed
- 29.5 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Orange Liberia, Lonestar Cell MTN
- 5G
- No, LTE only
- Cities with their own page
- 3: Monrovia, Buchanan, Kakata
