What’s a SIM Card?
A SIM is an acronym stands for Subscriber Identity Module. It’s small card that fits in select phones that’s basically the digital identification for the phone. You can theoretically quickly change phones by swapping out your physical SIM card.
What’s an eSIM Card?
Fast forward to eSIM cards. eSIM stands for Embedded Subscriber Identity Module. Instead of a physical SIM card an eSIM is a logical identity for select phones. No need for a physical SIM card.
The part where the magic comes in… Some phones also allow you to have multiple eSIM cards. So you can actually have multiple phone numbers on a single phone.
If you’re an avid reader you’ll have read my Airalo review. Airalo is an an app that allows international cell phone use throughout the world via their app and e-sim cards.
GigSky is in international coverage e-sim provider.
What makes GigSky revolutionary for cruise travelers?…
Most larger cruise ships have cellular capabilities. Ships have the equivalent of their own cell phone towers that provide service to people onboard and nearby. This is separate and different from Wi-Fi. See Wil my phone work onboard? for more on this subject
Cruise ships are considered countries when it comes to coverage from your cell phone company. If you look under international coverage at your carrier you’ll often time see cruise ship names listed in the mix.
Here’s the thing… to my knowledge no carrier provides favorable rates or packaged data deals for ANY cruise ship. Beyond that no e-sim provider (again to my knowledge) provides coverage on a cruise ship.
GigSky…. DOES offer coverage on over 200 cruise ships! That’s along with coverage in many foreign countries.
This means you can access the internet on ships in their network as part of their reasonable e-sim data bundles! They also offer tethering so you can use purchased data on your laptop with the aid of a compatible smart phone.
A compatible phone is required.
GigSky also offers a free 100 MB plan so you can try out their services!
If you’re a light to moderate internet user when cruising a GigSky e-sim could save you a substantial amount of money compared to onboard internet. I’ll be trying this out on our next cruise. Some questions I’m going to get answered are what is the coverage like onboard and what internet speeds can we expect.
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