couldn't find out what number was assigned. *221# didn't work. got the number from support. however, VoLTE is not working (during calls the phone switches back to 3G). the network provider is Contel.

Nov 4, 2025

Giga.Tel

Alexanderused in Brazil 🇧🇷

If you buy eSIM with option "activate immediately" everything works fine so far.

ATTENTION: There is also an option for future activation for a specific date
-> eSIM activation in Brazil almost impossible, worked after trying for several hours
-> eSIM has been suspended after six days without any reason (just 6 of 20 GB consumed)
-> Support was unresponsive. No answer to several messages
-> Therefore my WhatsApp account has been reported and temporarily blocked!!!

Product: "Brasil LOCAL 20GB/30d"

Oct 20, 2025

Giga.Tel

Mikeused in Brazil 🇧🇷

esim could not be activated, support was completely unresponsive.

Sep 20, 2025

MobiMatter

Vicused in Costa Rica 🇨🇷

I got the 2GB for 30 days(not sure about the duration of plan) and it was amazing. Honestly all there esim's are very close to the cheepest and the have a cash back wallet where you earn 10% of every purchase which can than be used to pay for future esim's with them. They use the liberty network in Costa Rica BTW and all their esims are routed through Poland but I didn't feel any slow speeds.

Aug 21, 2025

Giga.Tel

Pelatused in Brazil 🇧🇷

Never received the esim and no answer to messages.
Scam

Aug 3, 2025

GLOBAL YO

Alejandroused in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, Panama 🇵🇦

Horrible experience. I was never able to activate the eSIM. I kept getting kicked out as the app attempted to register on different networks. I followed dozens of troubleshooting steps with customer service, all without success. I escalated the issue twice, but it was never resolved. I ended up spending four hours of my vacation trying to get it to work.
In the end, I purchased another eSIM from a different provider — it worked like a charm. I even bought another one for use in Panama, which also worked flawlessly and was incredibly easy to activate.

Avoid this service like the plague. It feels like a scam. Even the app looks like an online casino, not a professional eSIM provider.

Horrible experience. Never again. I lost $25 on the Global XL plan, which I never got to use.

Jul 31, 2025

GLOBAL YO

Alejandroused in Panama 🇵🇦

Horrible. The service never worked. SIM never was able to register with a network. I tried troubleshooting for 2 days losing 2 or 3 hours talking with CS, they asked me to do several things nothing worked, they gave another Sim same thing. The CS was slow to respond and powerless, I escalated the ticket and nobody answer. I purchased a Sim from other company and worked great. Never again! Beware is a scam because I lost my $25!

Jul 12, 2025

Airhub

Ngused in Colombia 🇨🇴

I bought the 30 days plan esim for Colombia and tried to activate it upon arrival without success. I had to buy another esim from another company which worked right away and for 1 week. After several exchanges, the esim finally was activated. BUT, everytime I needed WIFI to connect to the network and get data. I told them the problem and asked for refund since I never was able to use it. They refused. So you buy an esim to get data but to get data you need wifi to connect to the network.
Worst experience with esim, especially if you need it to move around in cities like Bogota.

Jul 9, 2025

esimzon

Alexused in Brazil 🇧🇷

Terrible service, I had to manually select the network they asked me to and still won't work. Not recommended.

Jun 17, 2025

MicroEsim

Josefused in Brazil 🇧🇷

Horrible, i had 3 sim cards from which 1 worked

Jun 11, 2025

Airhub

Alexused in Brazil 🇧🇷

It's not true about free test 200MB. They didn't give it to me

May 25, 2025

Roamless

Alexused in Brazil 🇧🇷

They wrote about free test offer 250MB - but it is not true, they didn't give me this free 250MB

May 25, 2025

GlobaleSIM

Alexused in Colombia 🇨🇴

Unfortunately Global eSIM is not working 98% of the time. Only 3G and nothing loads.

May 25, 2025

GlobaleSIM

Philippeused in Colombia 🇨🇴

Scam alert! Do not use Global eSIM.

My girlfriend and I went to Colombia and we chose Global eSIM. Don’t do that, whatever the price. In Bogota, the biggest city in the country, it wasn’t working 95% of the time. We tried to get explanations from them, but they just don’t care. Worst company ever.

Feb 27, 2025

GlobaleSIM

Stéphanie used in Colombia 🇨🇴

Cartagena works okay, Medellin works very well, but do not buy for Bogota… Customer service is a big mess!!! 6-7 emails just to get useless nonsense that’s already in the help center, and I have to repeat everything and confirm tons of times… In short, 5 days without service in the largest capital city of Colombia — a real joke!!! Definitely don’t buy!!! Now I’m trying to get a refund… already at 5 emails… A scam!

Feb 23, 2025

Airhub

Mused in Colombia 🇨🇴

Bought the 7GB eSIM. Really slow and unstable with frequent connection drops. Would not recommend.

Feb 10, 2025

Breeze

Chrisused in Peru 🇵🇪

Zero stars if it were possible. Absolutely terrible. Easy to set up and activate, but the data signal was absolutely the worst. Like dial up 1999. Images would not load. Basic internet use was nearly impossible. Only functional for texting. I don't know what the quality is in other countries, but I would not use Breeze again, obviously. They would have to pay me.

Jan 29, 2025

Airalo

Nussyused in Colombia 🇨🇴

Great experience, truly local. Downloaded and was online once I landed. I was in Bogota, Suesca, Cartagena. Always good speed and local number. Thanks!

Jan 25, 2025

Airhub

Vused in Colombia 🇨🇴

Bought 2x 7GB eSIMs. It worked on Claro but paid for 7GB and they both stopped working at 5 GB.

Support quickly reactivated one but not the other.

eSIMdb coupon did not work. It looked like it applied but when I paid with Visa card it was the full amount.

Also eSIM provider is Plus in Poland so internet is in Polish and you get annoying EU pop ups on Google and every site.

Local Claro SIM is much cheaper, faster, and no hassles.

Jan 4, 2025

GlobaleSIM

Valdson juniorused in Colombia 🇨🇴

I’m facing a very bad experience with GlobaleSIM in Colombia ! Since I was in Bogota, I had a terrible connection and the data wasn’t working… I’m in Cartagena and the speed is very slow, only 3G connection and just for a couple minutes because the connection breaks every time, and took 5 minutes or more to get back connected

I get in contact with the support, I did what they said but at the end, they said that they can do nothing to improve the connection.

Nov 15, 2024

GlobaleSIM

Dmytro used in Brazil 🇧🇷

Signal is weak. Loose LTE. From 3G no internet. Price was 18 dollars for 10 GB.month.

Oct 16, 2024

Airhub

Ivanused in Brazil 🇧🇷

paid 25$, got empty QR code for installation

Aug 30, 2024

Jetpac

Mused in Colombia 🇨🇴

Wonderful quick and easy just make sure you activate when you land.

Aug 6, 2024

GlobaleSIM

Mused in Colombia 🇨🇴

Not working and also customer response is very slow. If you need it to work quickly choose another service.

Aug 6, 2024

Airhub

Jaswantused in Brazil 🇧🇷

I didn't get QR code still, I totally disappointed with their service
I am waiting for long time

So don't buy this sim

Jul 30, 2024

GlobaleSIM

Williamused in Brazil 🇧🇷

Not good, most of the time I could not use it. There was a signal, and people with physical SIMS on the same network had no problems.

Jul 28, 2024

GlobaleSIM

andreused in Brazil 🇧🇷

I didn’t get a confirmation email, from the QR in the confirmation page I could not install it, because it said this QR had been used already, and when checking the code they also mention there it was showing data for a booking completely different than mine. When contacting costumer service they didn’t bother to answer and i just had the option to report them to PayPal, good thing I didn’t give them my credit card details, who knows what would have happened in that situation

Jul 27, 2024

GigSky

Katused in Bolivia 🇧🇴

Couldn't even get on the app the link to verify email took me in a loop never allowing me on and customer support bounced back. Seems like a scam to me.

Jun 26, 2024

GLOBAL YO

Nicholasused in Brazil 🇧🇷

I bought a top up which vanished immediately, and they refused to credit or refund. I’d avoid this provider.

Jun 12, 2024

Airhub

mortyused in Costa Rica 🇨🇷

After buying more than 20 sim cards from them, this one was a super bad experience after which I think I'd better pay more on other providers than use this one.
I bought a pretty expensive 40 day sim for $70, it said beforehand that it works only on Iphone, so I got an iphone specifically for this. After you order it says - esim will be activated in 12 hours (its the type where you give them your imei and they register you rather than scanning a QR).
12 hours later 2 CS agents contact me separately saying there is a problem activating. I spend 5 days corresponding with them (I needed the card next day after I bought it), customers support end up ghosting me. Asking for a refund finally got a response full week after failed activation. Now 50 days after the claimed refund I havn't got it and they do not respond via any channels.
And I am a recurring customer, I bought more than 20 sims from them already, some of them worked, some didn't, I'd say chance is around 70 working to 30 not working. Every time trying to get a refund is super painful, customer support is awful, but I got at least portion of the money (they refunded me the wrong purchase once). But this time they decided to just lie and hide. So be warned. Also amount of time you need to spend corresponding with them is just abysimal, it is not worth the money. Their voice plans are usually the best, but its a lottery with very high cost of losing.

May 25, 2024

GlobaleSIM

Tayused in Brazil 🇧🇷

Not good. When data does work, everything loads slowly but a lot of the time it doesn’t work. The coverage is terrible and j was Constantly losing data signal. I was in Salvador/Bahia and Rio. You would think coverage would be better in Rio but it was worse. It left me stranded and disrupted my whole day. Do not recommend! Also bought a voice plan and the number the gave me never worked and I couldn’t make any calls. Tried to contact them but had no response. Don’t waste your money. Avoid!

Apr 10, 2024

Airhub

Sused in Brazil 🇧🇷

Terrible coverage, unreliable connection, always going in and out even in large cities.

Jan 26, 2024

GlobaleSIM

Robinused in Guatemala 🇬🇹

I love you! Thank you so much makes the traveling life way easier. This service is great does exactly as it should has some coupons and an overview over all easy to use options. So happy I don’t have to wait at a claro store for 2h to get the eSIM activated

Used your services already 3/4 times absolutely wholesome experience. So the review is not exclusively for Guatemala but for the overall experience you created here. Will continue to do use and spread the word!

Lots of love from a traveler that already saved you on the homescreen

Robin

Dec 26, 2023

GlobaleSIM

dlawgisused in Ecuador 🇪🇨

Extremely dissatisfied with the GlobaleSim experience in Ecuador.
Not a single place with 4G coverage and 3G was so slow it was barely usable. Next time, I'll choose another provider.

Sep 26, 2023

Nomad

Joaoused in Brazil 🇧🇷

Awesome expirence and good price!

Mar 23, 2021

Frequently Asked Questions

How many travel eSIM brands (providers) are available for use in South America, and how many prepaid data plans are there?

South America offers roughly 80 travel eSIM brands and around 1, 300 prepaid data plans. With such a broad selection, travelers can easily find an eSIM that fits almost any usage need.

Are there any unlimited data eSIM plans available for South America?

Unlimited data eSIM plans are offered by several providers that cover South America. Firsty, Truely, Yesim and Roamify all supply plans with no data cap. The pricing for these options ranges from a free plan with ads and a maximum speed of 256 kbps to plans costing up to roughly $120 USD for a month‑long validity. While the plans are technically unlimited, speed throttling may occur, particularly on the free Firsty plan and the higher‑priced Truely, Yesim and Roamify options. Travelers looking for consistent high‑speed internet may want to compare the price levels and select a plan that aligns with their data appetite and budget.

Can I get a travel eSIM with a phone number and SMS for South America?

Travel eSIM plans that include a phone number, voice calls and SMS are available for South America. Providers such as GlobaleSIM and Roamify offer eSIMs with dialing code +1, which serves as a local South American number; both support inbound and outbound voice and SMS, with Roamify plans also allowing outbound SMS.

Prices begin around US$8.50 for a 1 GB 7‑day package and go up to about US$105 for a 20 GB plan valid for 365 days, with data caps ranging from 1 GB to 20 GB. Each plan includes the same telephony features, offering travelers flexibility to call, text and browse while visiting South America.

Summarized by Gen AI. Last updated: November 8, 2025