eSIM
Data the minute
you land.
Buy a data plan for where you are going, pay for it out of the dollars you already hold, and install it before you get on the plane. No roaming bill, no queue at an airport kiosk, no second phone.
How it works
Three steps, and the longest of them is choosing how much data you want.
- 01
Pick the country and the size
More than fifty destinations. You choose how much data you want; the shelf works out which plan length gives you that data for the least money and puts the days on the tile.
- 02
Pay from your balance
The price you see is the price you pay, settled from your HOLD account. If that money happens to be earning at the time, it comes out of the yield position in the same tap and the rest keeps earning.
- 03
Install it and it is on
The plan is delivered to your phone straight after payment. Your normal SIM stays where it is and keeps your number — the data plan sits alongside it.
The shop does the comparing
Every data shelf in this category is built the same way: three lengths, a dozen sizes, and a customer expected to hold six numbers in their head in the middle of an airport. Ours resolves that before you see it.
One decision, not three
The size is what you actually care about. So you choose the data, and we show the cheapest plan that delivers it — whatever length that turns out to be. The number of days is printed on the tile, not buried in a filter you had to operate.
Nothing that loses to the tile beside it
A plan is taken off the shelf when another one on the same shelf gives at least as much data for no more money. Showing both is not more choice; it is a trap, and the tile that catches you would have been one we priced.
Unlimited only when it wins
Unlimited stays on the shelf while it is within reach of the largest metered plan, and disappears when it is not. Being shown unlimited at double the price of 20 GB does not read as an honest shop.
What to know before you buy
The limits that cost money are here rather than only in the terms. Finding one out after paying is a refund; reading it now is a decision.
Data only, so no SMS codes
There is no phone number attached, which means no normal calls and no text messages — including the one-time codes some banks send. Anything that runs over data works exactly as it does at home: messaging calls, email, maps, HOLD itself.
Your phone has to be able to take it
It needs to support eSIM and it must not be locked to a mobile operator. Most phones sold in the last few years qualify; a handset bought on contract often does not, and neither we nor you can check that from the checkout screen.
If it will not install, you get your money back
That is the promise the checkout makes. If the plan cannot be installed on your device, or it installs and never connects where you are, we refund it in full — points included — and it is not conditional on you working out why.
Coverage belongs to the local network
We tell you which country a plan covers. We cannot promise a signal at a specific address, a specific speed, or a specific generation of network — buildings, rural areas and busy events all change what you get, and none of them are ours.
Auto-renew is off unless you turn it on
If you switch it on and run out of data before your days run out, we buy the same plan once more at the price you paid rather than the price on the day. It renews once and then stops on its own.
One place we cannot sell you a plan
Inside the United Arab Emirates. Selling mobile data within the country requires a local licence, so while you are physically there our shelf is empty — for every destination, not just that one. From anywhere else, plans for the UAE are on sale as normal.
The full terms of sale, including how the clock on a plan starts and what happens to an unused one, are on the eSIM Terms of Sale.
How we make money here
We buy data wholesale and sell it at our own price. That spread is the whole of it: there is no booking fee, no delivery fee, no card fee and no charge for the plan sitting unused, because the price on the tile is the entire transaction.
Where the same trip can be priced on a public shelf, we read that price and stay under it — we aim to come in around 30% below, and we are never above it. Where nothing comparable exists to read, the price runs off what the plan costs us.
Then 50% of what we make on the sale goes back to you as HiPoints, credited when the order completes — 60% on Pro. We keep the rest. That is why the cheaper the plan, the smaller the reward: it is a share of a real margin rather than a number chosen to look generous on a screen.
You can also put HiPoints toward the next plan at checkout, up to the whole price. A point is worth the same wherever it is spent.
Why data
The first thing you need in a new country is the thing you cannot buy until you get there.
A wallet for people who move is worth very little at an airport with no connection. Selling the data is not a side business bolted onto a bank app — it is the first ten minutes of every trip, and it is a purchase we can make cheaper and faster than the kiosk in arrivals.
See stays for the rest of the travel product.