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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
How much would it be and is it worth the hassle over Rogers/TELUS etc. where their roam like home is $12 in the US or $15 in other countries? How much are you actually saving, plus also taking into consideration you can't use voice, etc.
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Personally, I would say it comes down to ...
a) how long your trip is
At $12 CAD per day, if your trip to the U.S. is a weekend trip, it may not be worth the time/hassle and disadvantages that come with an e-sim. Although e-sims have kind of removed the time/hassle aspect.
Airalo's e-sim for the U.S. with 2GB of data that is valid for 2 weeks costs roughly the same as one day of roaming with the robber barons. ($11 CAD)
So a weekend trip costs you $24 CAD with the robber barons, versus $11 CAD with the e-sim. Perhaps not enough to be worth it.
Now if your trip to the U.S. (or Europe, etc) was say, 2 weeks, now you are looking at $12 or $15 CAD x 14 with the robber barons ($168 or $210 CAD) vs $11 CAD with an e-sim. Or perhaps marginally more with the e-sim if you buy, say, 5 GB for $21 CAD.
Doing without traditional voice calls and texts becomes a lot more tempting at that price difference.
b) how important traditional voice calls and texts are to you
There might be some people that absolutely need to be reached at their usual 'Canadian' number by traditional voice calls or text for an important reason and for those people a 'data only' sim just won't do.
For those that do not, they just use data based apps (WhatsApp, Facetime, etc) for calls and texts.