Nauru eSIM
Data for Nauru on Digicel Nauru, from $9.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and you install Orbislo once rather than once per trip.
- Networks
- Digicel Nauru
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Nauru
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $9.89 | $9.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $6.63 | $19.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $5.98 | $29.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $4.89 | $48.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $4.69 | $93.89 |
Every plan works the moment you land. Unused data returns to your wallet when the plan ends, and there is 100 MB of free rescue data on your account even at zero balance.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in Nauru on Digicel Nauru, the single upstream network available in this destination. Where two networks exist we buy both, because the difference between one and two is the difference between a bad afternoon and a bad trip.
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 Nauru: 4G only. A well provisioned 4G cell comfortably outruns a congested 5G one, which is why the figure above is measured throughput rather than a network generation.
What data costs in Nauru
A 1 GB plan for Nauru starts at $9.89, which is $9.89 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 Nauru it means the effective cost is nearer $7.12 a gigabyte than $9.89.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Nauru 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 Nauru
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 Nauru and it attaches to Digicel Nauru. Median time from tapping install to having service across all Orbislo orders is 41 seconds.
On landing there is one thing to check and it is the thing that goes wrong about sixty percent of the time people tell us they have no service: 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 Nauru
- Digicel is the only mobile network operator in Nauru, and the WFP logistics assessment of the country puts its coverage at about 99 percent. Nauru has no landline telephone network.
- Digicel began operating in Nauru in August 2009 and is listed with up to 40 agent outlets across the island.
- Nauru licenses radio equipment on the way in. Satellite terminals, VSAT, HF radio, and handheld, base and mobile VHF and UHF radio all sit under usage and import regulation administered by the Communications Board of Authority. GPS receivers are the one listed exception and need no licence.
- Both individual network operator licences and frequency licences are required in Nauru, and the Chief Regulator issues the frequencies different agencies may use for radio communications.
- Nauru's Department of ICT is governed by the Communications and Broadcasting Act 2018, and Digicel's own operation in the country has been governed by the Telecommunications and Regulatory Affairs Act 2017.
- Until 2025 Digicel's Nauru network carried all of its international traffic over satellite only, through the satellite provider ACS, with the government holding a fixed bandwidth allocation on that link.
- The East Micronesia Cable System landed in Nauru in August 2025, giving the country its first submarine fibre connection after decades on satellite. Digicel Nauru operates the landing station.
- Digicel Nauru's chief executive described the satellite service the cable replaces as one that served the island well but was vulnerable to disruption, especially during heavy rain.
- NEC announced on 15 May 2026 that construction of the East Micronesia Cable System was complete and that the Nauru share had been handed to the state owned Cenpac Corporation.
- The cable runs roughly 2,250 km from Tarawa in Kiribati to Nauru and on through Kosrae to Pohnpei, so Nauru sits on a branch rather than a trunk route and shares the system with two other countries.
- Digicel Nauru's published prepaid terms define registration as Digicel accepting your application for service, or your buying call time as a voucher. They set no identity document as a condition of connecting a prepaid line.
- Those same prepaid terms let Digicel decline an application and refuse to activate a connection at its sole discretion, and they require you to consent to Digicel collecting your personal information.
- Clause 5 of the Nauru prepaid terms says you may be able to use the service while outside Nauru, and that special tariffs and charges apply when you do.
- CenpacNet has been Nauru's internet service provider since 1998 and also administers the .nr country domain registry from the Nauru Internet Centre in Aiwo District.
- CenpacNet asks customers not to point their devices at public DNS resolvers such as 8.8.8.8, because every lookup then has to cross its satellite links and pages appear to load slowly or time out.
How Nauru compares across Oceania
- Regional median
- 30.5 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- One network, Digicel Nauru
- 5G
- No, LTE only
- Cities with their own page
- 1: Yaren
