Slovenia eSIM
Data for Slovenia on Telekom and A1, from $5.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- Telekom and A1
- Typical speed
- 74 Mbps typical, 21 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- yes, non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Slovenia
| 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 | $1.56 | $77.89 |
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 74 Mbps actually means in Slovenia
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Slovenia: 74 Mbps. That sits close to the Europe median of 71 Mbps, which makes Slovenia an unremarkable place to be connected, in the good sense.
The tenth percentile is 21 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.
At these speeds nothing on a phone is limited by the connection. Video calls are comfortable, a laptop can be tethered for a full working day, and large photo backups finish without planning around them.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in Slovenia on Telekom and A1. 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 Slovenia: yes, non 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 Slovenia
A 500 MB plan for Slovenia starts at $0.32, 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 Slovenia it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.00.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Slovenia 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 Slovenia
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 Slovenia 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 Slovenia
The figures above cover Slovenia as a whole, and a national figure hides real variation. We publish separate figures for Ljubljana, Bled and Piran, 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.
Worth knowing about Slovenia
- Alongside 112, Slovenia keeps 113 as the police number and 116 000 as the line for reporting a missing child. The 112 number can be dialled at no charge from a landline, a mobile or a public telephone.
- Radio waves take no notice of a border, so near one a handset left to choose its own network can end up on a foreign operator, and the regulator's position is that traffic carried there may lawfully be billed as such. Choosing the network by hand is the way to keep control of it.
- Under the European roaming regulation an operator has to stop data at a safety limit of 61 euro including value added tax, and it may only carry on once the user or the subscriber has expressly allowed the spend to continue.
- Slovenia is covered by the EU roaming regulation, so a SIM from another EU member state pays its domestic prices here, with no roaming surcharge on calls, texts or data. The regulation runs until 30 June 2032.
- The EU regulation also bars a roaming provider from offering worse conditions abroad than at home, including quality of service in the contract, wherever the visited network offers the same generation of technology. A plan that includes 5G at home should therefore get 5G on a Slovenian network that has it.
- A Slovenian SIM roams at domestic prices in the EU for periodic travel only. If over at least four months its user spends more than half the days in other EU countries and does more than half of all use there, the operator may warn by SMS and add surcharges after 14 days.
- Roaming providers must warn a user by SMS, email or pop-up when data roaming reaches 80 percent of the agreed financial or volume limit. Outside the EU, a provider that cannot track spending must say so in a free SMS as soon as the phone arrives.
- Slovenia's SI-ALARM system sends emergency warnings by cell broadcast to every phone in a threatened area, visitors from abroad included. Messages arrive in Slovenian and English, and also in Italian or Hungarian in the national community areas, free, anonymously and without any app.
- To receive SI-ALARM a phone must be switched on, have an active SIM logged on to a Slovenian operator's network and run Android 12 or later or iOS 26 or later. Alerts of the highest level cannot be switched off.
- Besides 116 000, Slovenia runs 116 111 as a helpline for children and 116 123 for people in emotional distress. The police number 113 dates from 1997, when it replaced the older number 92.
How Slovenia compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Telekom, A1
- 5G
- Yes, non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Portugal, 74 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Bulgaria, 72 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 3: Ljubljana, Bled, Piran
