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At Tbilisi and Kutaisi airports, Magti hands out a free SIM card with its Welcome package for tourists: 15 GEL (about €5.15) for 5 GB over 15 days, or 30 GEL (€10.29) for 3 GB plus free local calls and 30 international minutes. You show your passport at the counter. The POVNOMAD Georgia eSIM costs

A tourist SIM from Ooredoo in Tunisia costs 15 TND (about €4.46) for 3.5 GB over 15 days, SIM card included, and you register it with your passport. Keep a Tunisian SIM in your own phone for more than 30 days and you also have to register the phone on the Sajalni platform, or it

As a tourist in Japan you can buy a data-only SIM card without an ID check, for example ¥1,980 (€11.16) for 5 GB over 10 days at b-mobile. A SIM with a Japanese phone number needs your passport in person and costs ¥4,950 (€27.91) plus a monthly plan from ¥1,650 at Mobal. The POVNOMAD Japan

A tourist SIM card in China costs about 80 to 200 yuan (€10.67 to €26.67) for 7 to 30 days. You buy it in person with your passport at a shop or airport counter of China Mobile, China Unicom or China Telecom, and it runs behind the Great Firewall, so Google, WhatsApp and Instagram stay

Telkomsel sells foreign visitors a tourist starter pack with 25 GB for 30 days at Rp150,000 (about €7.49). To use an Indonesian SIM you need your passport, and your phone’s IMEI must be registered, for stays of up to 90 days at the operator’s counter. The POVNOMAD Indonesia eSIM costs €1.90 for 1 GB over

To get a Vietnamese SIM card you need a passport that is valid for your permitted stay, and since 15 April 2026 the operator must check your details against the national immigration database before the line works. The POVNOMAD Vietnam eSIM costs €1.90 for 1 GB over 7 days or €9.90 for 7 days of

A tourist SIM from AIS or TrueMove H costs 499 baht (about €13.28) for 8 days of unlimited data in Thailand. You register it with your passport and a live face scan, and it stops working after 60 days at the latest. The POVNOMAD Thailand eSIM starts at €2.90 for 1 GB over 7 days,

You can get a Brazilian mobile plan without a CPF. Claro and Vivo sell tourist eSIMs against your passport number: Claro 20 GB for 15 days at R$44.90 (€8.01), Vivo 25 GB for 30 days at R$55 (€9.81). A regular prepaid SIM still asks for a CPF when you activate it yourself, so without one

A local SIM card costs less than a travel eSIM in Morocco. Orange sells its prepaid SIM for 20 dirham (€1.80) with 20 dirham of credit on it, and an internet recharge of 50 dirham (€4.51) currently adds 11 GB for 30 days. The POVNOMAD Morocco eSIM starts at €3.90 for 1 GB over 7

You buy a tourist SIM card in Egypt in an operator shop with your passport, and since 21 January 2026 a phone from abroad works on a local SIM for 90 days per visit before a customs charge of about 38.5 per cent of its value falls due. The POVNOMAD Egypt eSIM costs €18.90 for