topic Re: Travel to morocco in Sky Mobile

Travel to morocco

Mango2901 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:16:19 GMT

I am travelling to Morocco for 4 days in May.

Is there an eSIM that I can purchase to enable me to use roaming abroad?

Re: Travel to morocco

63johnw — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:22:23 GMT

Hi @Mango2901 if you are already with sky then your current sim will work but it will be very, very expensive so be aware of that before using. If you aren't already with sky then there isn't a PAYG option that would allow roaming.

page 11 on this guide shows the costs.

https://static.skyassets.com/contentstack/assets/blt7f2b03fd02c7fe60/blte59d970118ee142d/67fd1fc989c4f95bd1c17885/download?disposition=inline

Re: Travel to morocco

caesarome — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:24:12 GMT

@Mango2901

The costs are:

£2,160 per GB (yes this is correct)

£2.16 per minute Calls to local or UK mobile and landline numbers

£1.80 per minute to receive calls

£0.50 per text message to UK numbers and mobiles

£0.58 per picture message(MMS)

A better option would be to use a local sim while in the country so before you leave the UK make sure mobile data and roaming is turned off.

Re: Travel to morocco

peter-marlow+1966 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:47:43 GMT

Just checked for and if you set your spending cap on your sim card to £10 , you will have two pounds a day add to your sky mobile bill and you can phone text, and use Internet for that, i know this because i have done it on my phone when we went to Spain for 2 weeks, and when my son went away on holiday it called roaming passport plus and yes it will work where you are going on holiday don't put the roaming cap off as reading it that will add £45 on your next bill, cheaper just to move your sim spending cap to £10 and that will more than cover your four days a, and if you want to check this information go to the my sky app mobile section and open manage my sim, hope this helps, and have a great time away

Re: Travel to morocco

Daniel0210 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:51:30 GMT

@peter-marlow+1966 wrote:

Just checked for and if you set your spending cap on your sim card to £10 , you will have two pounds a day add to your sky mobile bill and you can phone text, and use Internet for that, i know this because i have done it on my phone when we went to Spain for 2 weeks, and when my son went away on holiday it called roaming passport plus and yes it will work where you are going on holiday don't put the roaming cap off as reading it that will add £45 on your next bill, cheaper just to move your sim spending cap to £10 and that will more than cover your four days a, and if you want to check this information go to the my sky app mobile section and open manage my sim, hope this helps, and have a great time away

@peter-marlow+1966

The OP is going to Morocco so it's a Rest Of The World destination so the charges are as outlined by @caesarome and very expensive.

Re: Travel to morocco

peter-marlow+1966 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:57:03 GMT

Sorry my mistake, best i think for them to ring sky then before they go away , i Don't want to mislead them

Re: Travel to morocco

TimmyBGood — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:10:24 GMT

@peter-marlow+1966

Spain is in the EU where £2 roaming applies. Morocco (apart from two tiny Spanish enclaves on the coast) is not and the difference in mobile charges is enormous, as that MSP learnt a while ago.

Re: Travel to morocco

TimmyBGood — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:26:34 GMT

@peter-marlow+1966

No point ringing Sky on this topic: all that might be confirmed is extremely high potential cost.

@Mango2901

Yes, eSims specifically intended for foreign travel are available online through multiple suppliers, but not from Sky.

For reference, £2 per day roaming with a Sky Mobile SIM or eSIM only applies to the EU/EEA plus the countries listed in bold below.

Aruba (Netherlands Antilles)
Austria
Australia
Azores
Belgium
Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles)
Bulgaria
Canada
Canary Islands (Spain)
Christmas Islands (Australia)
Cocos Islands (Australia)
Croatia
Curacao (Netherlands Antilles)
Cyprus (Incl. Northern Cyprus)
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
French Guiana (French West Indies)
Germany
Gibraltar (UK)
Greece
Guadeloupe (French West Indies)
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madeira (Spain)
Malta
Martinique (French West Indies)
Mayotte (French Territories in the Indian Ocean)
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Reunion (French Territories in the Indian Ocean)
Romania
Saba (Netherlands Antilles)
Sint Eustatius (Netherlands Antilles)
Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles)
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
St Barthelemy (French West Indies)
St Martin (French West Indies)
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
USA
United Arab Emirates

Re: Travel to morocco

peter-marlow+1966 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:05:57 GMT

as you can see yes sky do do esims

Re: Travel to morocco

TimmyBGood — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:27:53 GMT

@peter-marlow+1966

Sky does an eSIM version of its own Sky Mobile SIM with exactly the same tariff for overseas travel as the physical Sky-branded wafer of foil and plastic, including the extremely high cost for all calls, texts and data use in destinations not listed above.

It does not offer country-specific eSIMS with more reasonable data rates: those come from specialist suppliers online which have done individual deals with cellular network providers in the countries concerned. The point about acquiring one of these as an eSIM rather than SIM is you don't have to wait for an envelope to arrive before installing it, and can keep it installed as a switchable software profile rather than taking up a physical slot.

Eventually eSIM will replace SIM because this will simplify handset hardware manufacture and save several billion bits of plastic a year.

Re: Travel to morocco

caesarome — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:08:49 GMT

@peter-marlow+1966 wrote:

as you can see yes sky do do esims

That isn't what is being asked here though, the member wants to know if they can use an esim from Sky in the country which as explained above will see them wrack up large charges.