Buying a Sim Card in the USA in 2023 🇺🇸

welcome to the united states of america i am a travel tomtom and on my journey to visit every country in the world i have passed by the usa a lot of times and every time i get to a new country i buy a prepaid sim card to stay connected however here in the usa i always have a little issues with buying a local prepaid sim card and getting connected for my trip to united states surprisingly in the world's most famous country buying a prepaid sim card isn't as easy as in many other countries so for example if you arrive at the airport in the united states there could be that there is no sim card shop for you to straight away get connected on arrival and in such a big country with so many hundreds of millions of people living here you would expect that they have at least a lot of different mobile internet operators but that also isn't the case so in this video i will tell you everything you need to know about buying a prepaid sim card in the united states i tell you all about the mobile internet operators the best 4g 5g network in the united states of course about the prices and i'll tell you also information about buying an international or an e-sim card for united states to get connected on your trip to united states you may ask yourself why buying a prepaid sim card in the united states well first of all we want to save on high roaming charges right and second of all we want to stay connected because staying connected is a makes traveling so much easier think about ordering a uber on the streets or getting directions from google maps finding a nearby local restaurant and just simply stay in touch with family and friends and yes there is wi-fi everywhere in the united states like bars restaurant hotels the problem is it's not a guarantee right and the second thing is reminder that surfing the internet on a public wi-fi is through an unsecure network and your data is not protected and therefore traveltomtom recommends you to get a prepaid sim card before traveling to united states in the meantime guys a quick reminder to please like this video subscribe to my channel just for the effort of putting all this together for you that would be amazing i told you already briefly that there are not that many mobile internet operators here in the united states here's one it's t-mobile and then there is just one more and that is a t and t hi sir you have prepaid sim cards for tourists yeah we do i just walked out of a t store and check the prices for prepaid sim cards first of all when buying an att prepaid sim card you have to pay a 20 activation fees and when it comes to the prices it's uh the cheapest package is 30 usd and that gives you five gigabyte or you get a package of 40 us dollars and you get 15 gigabytes so the cheapest one you still pay six dollar for one gigabyte on top of that 20 activation fee so yeah buying a prepaid sim card in the united states is not cheap and they have a third package which is 65 us dollars but then you get unlimited data for one month let's see the prices for t-mobile cars [Music] just got the prices here at the t-mobile store and for 25 us dollars you get two a gigabyte of data for 35 us dollars you get five gigabytes and then it's fifty dollars for ten and sixty dollars for unlimited data and then you must be asking yourself also 20 activation fee no it's included already in the prices which is a very simple conclusion that t-mobile is much cheaper than att i forgot to tell you that in all prepaid sim card packages you buy in the united states or t-mobile or att there's always unlimited calling and unlimited texting included i showed you the prices i showed you where you can buy a prepaid sim card let me also tell you something about the best 4g 5g network here in the united states well there's nothing to be worried about for tourists because everywhere you go all the tourist destinations in the usa are covered by a excellent 4g or even 5g signal from both att and t-mobile their networks are really good so with that concerns it doesn't matter if you buy a t or a pre-bid sim card from t-mobile so coming up with a conclusion what travel tomtom thinks that is the best prepaid sim card for the united states is a fairly easy one i guess because you have seen me comparing the prices and the mobile network and it was pretty damn easy that t-mobile has the cheapest prepaid sim cards for united states the networks are kind of the same so yeah my vote goes to t-mobile as i said already before unfortunately at many airports on arrival in united states they don't really sell prepaid sim cards for tourists which is a bit of a bummer which means you have to go to the flagship stores of either t-mobile or at t but there are more options and that is buying a prepaid sim card for the united states online before your trip that means you buy a sim card and it gets shipped to your home address uh it's a very easy it's plug and play so you put it into your phone and it works and it covers the united states you can order them directly online i will uh put a link in the description below where you can find my extensive blog article with much more information and up to date prices about prepaid sim cards in the united states and it also contains links for buying these international sim cards for the united states and last but not least i have to of course mention e-sim cards people we're living in a modern world where you don't want to go into a store anymore you don't want to buy a physical sim card no you can buy an e-zip card it's an electronic sim card and you simply order it online you receive a code in your email you apply some settings and you're all done you are connected to the network here in the united states and you can use data on your phone like usual also more information about e-sim cards you can find in the links in the description rest me to tell you that i wish you an amazing trip to united states i'm sure you're going to enjoy this amazing country full of surprises cool people if you have any questions please leave me a comment below and don't forget to like this video for my efforts and showing you the best prepaid sim card in the united states

Channel: Traveltomtom

Views: 57,067

Keywords: sim card usa, sim card

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Length: 7min 24sec (444 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 31 2022