eSwatini

[LukeBoz]

Hi. Is eSwatini counted as South Africa when it comes to roaming?

[PandJ2020]

The tariff doesn't really provide anything definitive.

I would assume it's a 'rest of world' (expensive) location.  (Or roaming is simply not available for it)

It's close to Mozambique which is definitely a RoW location.  If you can connect to SA towers then the roaming passport (£2/24 hours) should apply.

I'd be wary of automatic network selection on your phone.

Give Sky a call (on 150) and see if they can confirm...

[TimmyBGood]

@LukeBoz 

The internet says that as an independent sovereign nation Eswatini has its own two telecoms companies with cellular networks (MTN Eswatini and Eswatini Mobile) which would typically mean signal from those providers gets charged as a different country to South Africa despite being entirely surrounded: the equivalent in Europe is Andorra (which doesn't get £2 roaming)