Prepaid travel data for India with instant activation and no roaming fees
Quick Setup
No Roaming
4G/5G Speed
Refund Policy
Data only — no phone number, no calls, no SMS Your own number stays active on your existing SIM (dual SIM), and you can call and message through WhatsApp, FaceTime and similar apps.
1 Day
How many travelers?
You do not get a new phone number with this eSIM.
Setting up your eSIM? The installation and activation guide walks through it step by step, and the full FAQ covers device compatibility, hotspot, dual SIM and topping up.
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The fixed-data plans run on Airtel. The unlimited day passes can use Airtel, Jio or Vi (Vodafone Idea), so they suit trips where one network may be weak. Neither uses BSNL, the state operator.
Coverage is strongest in the cities and along the main routes, and patchier in the mountains, deserts and on the islands. On the Andamans, travellers report that BSNL often has the best signal - and this eSIM cannot use it.
This eSIM gives you data, not an Indian phone number, so the SMS codes that banks and many ride-hailing and delivery apps send cannot reach it. UPI apps also expect the SIM of your registered Indian number to be in the phone.
If you have an Indian SIM - visiting family, for example - keep it in the second slot for calls, codes and UPI, and let the eSIM handle data: dual-SIM phones run both at once. Without an Indian number, check before you travel which of your apps offer another way to sign in.
A local SIM is cheap, but foreign visitors usually need their passport and visa, a photo and often the name and number of a contact in India, and activation can take hours. The eSIM is set up at home before the trip.
The authorities sometimes switch off mobile internet in a particular district or state, notably in Jammu and Kashmir and in Manipur. India has recorded more shutdowns than any other country over the past decade, according to the digital-rights group Access Now. Shutdown orders go to the mobile networks in the area, so expect a travel eSIM to go offline too.
In Jammu and Kashmir and in Ladakh, prepaid SIMs from other parts of India are reported not to work, and travel eSIMs may not either. The UK advises against all travel to Jammu and Kashmir, except air travel to and from Jammu city and travel within it.
Do not count on it. Make sure you have another way to stay in touch there - a hotel landline, or a postpaid Indian SIM if you have one.
Airtel and Jio both run 5G in hundreds of cities, but a roaming eSIM is not guaranteed to connect to it, so plan on 4G.
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