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[Suggestion] eSIM

New-Taupe-Chinchilla-3440452554

Purchase of eSIM on the app for travelling could be one of the best feature on bunq, even included in a bunq plan.

Gerhard-Yellow-Frog

Why is this better than anything you could purchase yourself today? 🤔

thijsoost

Gerhard Agreed, in my opinion there are enough existing solutions. I see no need for a bank to offer this product 🤷🏼‍♂️

Nekoman

Thijs and here we are almost 2 months later with eSIM 🥲

MiMoHo

With Update 26, Bunq introduced an eSIM from BetterRoaming without better rates than if you bought straight from the vendor. Do they get a bonus for every referral that they pass on to their Bank Pro XL users in form of a data voucher? Anyways. What you get is a service not better ranked on Trustpilot than Nomad eSIM or Airalo. Pricing is comparable to the latter but when purchasing Europe as a region, some Balkan countries are excluded. For example Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro require you to go Global. No hassle-free traveling.
Bunq should focus on their core functions, fix bugs and bring back Tap & Pay for consumers instead of cooperating with dubious third-party services and marketing them as "Save 90% on roaming fees" without a reference and suggesting you would save heavily compared to the service's default plans 😡

Gerhard-Yellow-Frog

If they’re able to issue invoices for those eSIMs that would be great. At BetterRoaming it’s annoying to follow up with support every time. So I’m using Ubigi mostly.

For me quality with BetterRoaming and Ubigi is above Airalo although with them it depends what you buy because they’re just a marketplace that doesn’t tell you who you’re buying from. But at least they give you a list of networks you can connect to and whether it’s 4G or 5G. Some of the others don’t even manage that.

Gerhard-Yellow-Frog

Replying to myself, but it doesn't look like it... bunq seems to use the same UI mechanism that sends you a link when you use the eSIM in a new country which you then access; so I doubt the payment flow and invoice mechanism is a different one... so if the price is the same I'll use it, otherwise I don't really see the point... but maybe I'll just have to try it