Oslo eSIM
In Oslo you connect to Telenor or Telia, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The typical speed across the country is 97 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Telenor and Telia
- Typical speed in Norway
- 97 Mbps typical, 31 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- yes, standalone and non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Oslo
| 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 | $1.52 | $75.89 |
How Norway compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Telenor, Telia
- 5G
- Yes, standalone and non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Finland, 102 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Estonia, 95 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 4: Oslo, Bergen, Tromso, Lofoten
Landing at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen (OSL)
- Airport
- OSL / ENGM
- Distance
- 35 km from the centre of Oslo
- Wifi on arrival
- Free wifi in the terminalAvinor's network is called AIRPORT. Open a browser, the portal loads, choose Free and log in. The free session lasts four hours and you log in again for more.
- Also serves
- Sandefjord Airport, Torp (TRF)
Getting into Oslo
- Flytoget airport express to Oslo Central Station (OSL), about 19 minutes
- Vy mainline trains on the Gardermoen Line (OSL)
- Vestfold Line train from Sandefjord Airport Station to Oslo (TRF), about 108 minutes
- Torp-Ekspressen coach to Oslo (TRF), about 110 minutes
Underground and on the metro
Oslo Metro (T-banen) runs 5 lines. It opened in 1966. The operator does not publish whether the tunnels carry a mobile signal, so we do not claim either way.
Worth knowing about Oslo
- Only 17 of the Oslo Metro's 101 stations are underground or indoors; most of the 85 km network runs on the surface.
- Sandefjord Airport is marketed by Ryanair as 'Oslo Torp' and 'Oslo South' but lies 110 km from Oslo, about 1 hour 48 minutes by train.
- Nearly 70% of Oslo Airport passengers arrive by public transport, among the highest shares of any airport in the world.
- The Flytoget express covers the 35 km from Oslo Airport to the city centre in 19 minutes.
- Avinor runs one free wifi network across its airports, named AIRPORT. You open a browser, the portal appears, you select Free and log in, and the free session lasts four hours.
- Flytoget lets you ride without buying a ticket. You tap a card on the reader at the station before boarding, then tap the same card again at the barrier when you arrive.
- When Flytoget launched contactless ticketless travel in 2021 it took Visa and Mastercard but not American Express, and Norwegian BankAxept debit cards needed an account number registered first.
- Flytoget departs every ten minutes for most of the day, reaches Oslo Central Station in 19 minutes, also calls at Nationaltheatret and Skoyen, and carries free wifi and plug sockets.
- A Ruter single ticket in zone 1 is valid for 60 minutes, and the validity grows by 30 minutes for each additional zone you buy.
- Ruter sells single tickets on board buses and boats, but a ticket bought on board costs more. Ruter says the surcharge exists because selling on board takes a long time.
- Ruter tells visitors the easiest way to buy is the Ruter app, and says you can pay in the app by card and with Vipps. A physical travel card is sold at kiosks.
- Telenor, Netcom and Tele 2 built 4G into the Oslo metro tunnels together with Sporveien, bolting cable every 20 metres through more than 44,000 metres of tunnel.
- Sporveien's stated goal was mobile coverage in every Oslo metro tunnel by the summer of 2016, with the three operators sharing a cost of around 130 million kroner.
- All five metro lines share the 7.3 km Common Tunnel from Majorstuen to Toyen and its six stations, which caps the network at 24 trains an hour each way west of Stortinget.
- Norwegian rules oblige every provider of number based person to person communications to identify a customer uniquely when a contract is opened, changed or closed, so a SIM is not an anonymous purchase.
- Norway accepts an original valid passport or an electronic ID such as BankID. Someone with no Norwegian personal number or D number needs ID showing date and place of birth, a photograph and citizenship.