Martinique eSIM
Data for Martinique on Orange Caraïbe, SFR Caraïbe, Free Caraïbe and Digicel, 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, Free Caraïbe and Digicel
- Typical speed
- 46.2 Mbps typical, 3.9 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- yes, standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Martinique
| 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 | $1.34 | $26.89 |
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 Martinique
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Martinique: 46.2 Mbps. That puts Martinique well above the Caribbean median of 37.6 Mbps.
The tenth percentile drops to 3.9 Mbps, a long way below the median. In practice that means Martinique 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 Martinique on Orange Caraïbe, SFR Caraïbe, Free Caraïbe 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 Martinique: 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 Martinique
A 1 GB plan for Martinique 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 Martinique it means the effective cost is nearer $4.24 a gigabyte than $5.89.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Martinique 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 Martinique
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 Martinique 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 Martinique
- The European roaming regulation does not govern roaming inside French territory. Article L.34-10 of the postal and electronic communications code extends the same rules between mainland France and the overseas territories, and Martinique is named on that list alongside Guadeloupe, Guyane, La Reunion, Mayotte, Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy and Saint Pierre et Miquelon.
- For a traveller arriving from another European Union country the island counts as part of France for roam like at home, and regulators publishing the list of covered territories name Martinique explicitly next to Guadeloupe, Mayotte, La Reunion, Saint Martin and French Guiana.
- At sea off Martinique, call 196 or +596 596 70 92 92 to reach CROSS Antilles-Guyane in Fort-de-France, which coordinates rescue from Anguilla and Saint-Martin down to Saint Lucia. Boats can also call on VHF channel 16.
- FR-Alert, the state warning system, has covered the overseas departments since June 2022. It pushes alerts to every phone connected to the network inside the danger zone, with no sign up, though not to a phone that is switched off or in airplane mode.
- Martinique charges VAT at a standard rate of 8.5 percent and a reduced rate of 2.1 percent, applied to the same goods and services as the mainland French rates.
- Orange's February 2025 licence for Martinique requires it to publish on its website, updated daily, a list and map of sites that are down or degraded by maintenance or a fault, with the service and technology affected and the expected repair date.
How Martinique compares across Caribbean
- Regional typical speed
- 37.6 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 4, Orange Caraïbe, SFR Caraïbe, Free Caraïbe, Digicel
- 5G
- Yes, in Fort-de-France, Le Lamentin, Schoelcher and Trinité
- Next fastest nearby
- Guadeloupe, 46.2 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Aruba, 46 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 1: Fort-de-France
