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Originally Posted by getbak
Piling on the SIM discussion, is Airalo the best for the States too, or is there someone better?
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If your phone supports e-sims, Airalo is generally the way to go for U.S. travel. As long as you are ok with 'data only'. (No traditional voice calls or texts).
T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T offer free trials of their networks for 30 days using e-sims. But these free trial options can be trickier to setup from Canada and sometimes only work on certain devices. For example with T-Mobile you may need a US App Store ID and US VPN to install it. And maybe a GPS spoofer. A person would likely want to stick with Airalo unless they're really comfortable with tech workarounds.
Physical sim cards in the U.S. aren't quite as cheap as in say, Europe, so there's a price advantage to using e-SIMs in the U.S. T-Mobile and AT&T are popular physical sim card options.
Airalo raised $60 million this month in a Series B round. Prior to that they had raised $5 million. They are the most recognizable name in this space by quite a margin, and have always seemed to have the best reviews overall.
Other options like Holafly and Nomad are probably the second and third most well known. They all pretty much work the same way and seem to piggy-back off the same providers. You could try comparing those 3 and see if there's much of a difference. There seems to be a new Airalo-esque clone site every week.