San Marino eSIM
Data for San Marino on TIM San Marino and TMS, from $5.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- TIM San Marino and TMS
- 5G
- yes, standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for San Marino
| 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.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in San Marino on TIM San Marino and TMS. 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 San Marino: 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 San Marino
A 1 GB plan for San Marino 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 San Marino it means the effective cost is nearer $4.24 a gigabyte than $5.89.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for San Marino 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 San Marino
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 San Marino and it attaches to TIM San Marino.
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.
Getting a local SIM in San Marino
The SIM is issued to the named contract holder and identifies that person, and the customer has to hand over a paper copy of the documents needed to complete the subscription, an identity document among them.
Worth knowing about San Marino
- A European home allowance does not follow a traveller here. Roam like at home covers the EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, along with Moldova and Ukraine, and San Marino appears on none of those lists.
- The general conditions for mobile service in San Marino define it as a service supplied bundled with a fixed telephone or internet subscription, which is not the way a short stay visitor usually buys a line.
How San Marino compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, TIM San Marino, TMS
- 5G
- Yes, covering effectively the whole republic
- Cities with their own page
- 1: San Marino
