Montenegro eSIM
Data for Montenegro on Telekom and One, from $6.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- Telekom and One
- Typical speed
- 52 Mbps typical, 13 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Montenegro
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $6.89 | $6.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $3.63 | $10.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $2.78 | $13.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $2.09 | $20.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $1.79 | $35.89 |
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 52 Mbps actually means in Montenegro
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Montenegro: 52 Mbps. That is below the Europe median of 71 Mbps, so plan around it rather than being surprised by it.
The tenth percentile is 13 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.
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 Montenegro on Telekom and One. 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 Montenegro: 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 Montenegro
A 500 MB plan for Montenegro starts at $0.50, which is $0.00 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 Montenegro it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.00.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Montenegro 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 Montenegro
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 Montenegro and it attaches to Telekom.
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 Montenegro
The figures above cover Montenegro as a whole, and a national figure hides real variation. We publish separate figures for Kotor, Budva and Podgorica, 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 Montenegro
Every mobile user, prepaid or postpaid, must be registered. Under the rulebook applied from 15 January 2026, a foreign visitor registers with a passport, or with an identity card where that card is accepted for entry to Montenegro or the holder has temporary residence.
What is restricted in Montenegro
- Messaging apps: On 16 October 2016, parliamentary election day, the Agency for Electronic Communications blocked access to Viber and WhatsApp. International election observers from the OSCE recorded the block as a cause for concern.
Worth knowing about Montenegro
- Travel from elsewhere in the Western Balkans costs home prices here. An agreement signed on 4 April 2019 between Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo lets the regulator set maximum roaming prices, and it has done so.
- A European visitor is in a different position. Data roaming between the Western Balkans and European Union countries was cut under a declaration signed by operators from both regions at the Tirana summit on 6 December 2022, which lowers the price rather than removing it.
- The regulator lists 112 as the single European emergency number, with 122 for police, 123 for fire and rescue, 124 for an ambulance and 129 for help at sea, which is the one worth knowing on the coast.
- A buyer of a One prepaid package must fill in a registration form and show a valid identity document to the seller at the point of sale, as the Law on Electronic Communications and its registration rulebook require.
- One sells postpaid contracts to private individuals only if they are Montenegrin citizens. A foreign national can hold a One postpaid line only through a business package taken out by a company.
- Crnogorski Telekom's online prepaid registration is open only to buyers aged 18 or over. It checks an identity card or passport through a partner verification service before the number goes live.
- A buyer under 18 is registered on a public document such as a birth register extract, health card, passport or identity card, with a parent or guardian present who gives written consent.
- Surcharges for roaming elsewhere in the Western Balkans ended on 1 July 2021, and no opt in is needed. The region covered is Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo.
- An operator may check a regional roamer's use over four months. If most use happens abroad it can ask for an explanation within 14 days and then add a surcharge, capped at 2.50 euros per gigabyte of data from 1 January 2026.
- The operators' customer service lines are 1500 for Crnogorski Telekom, 1700 for One and 1600 for Mtel, each free to call from within its own network.
How Montenegro compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Telekom, One
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Albania, 54 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- North Macedonia, 49 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 3: Kotor, Budva, Podgorica
