Morocco How to use phone?
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My wife is going to Morocco for a week. Her phone contract is with O2. Normally when we are away we are in countries covered by their roaming.
However for Morocco they want £65 for 1GB of Data!!!
So any one know how to get data in Morocco? Do you buy a sim locally and how does that actually work, in really simple terms, never having done it before?
Also does that compromise the security of the phone at all, it’s an iPhone 11.
However for Morocco they want £65 for 1GB of Data!!!
So any one know how to get data in Morocco? Do you buy a sim locally and how does that actually work, in really simple terms, never having done it before?
Also does that compromise the security of the phone at all, it’s an iPhone 11.
I was over there last October. I used https://esim.holafly.com/
£30 for unlimited data for 7 days. Just use whatsapp etc to make your calls rather than your UK number. Signal was generally good except for the high mountains/desert.
£30 for unlimited data for 7 days. Just use whatsapp etc to make your calls rather than your UK number. Signal was generally good except for the high mountains/desert.
Buying a sim locally, Maroc Telecom is a good bet. They sell them at the Airports and Ferry Terminal or in many local shops.
In February this year we were paying 50 Dirham, about £4 for a 5Gb data sim which included phone and text calls in Morocco but not out of the country. We just used iMessage, Facetime and Whatsapp for everything.
From memory I think we paid 30 Dirham - £2.50 for the actual sim card plus the 50 Dirham top up.
If you run out of data, just call into a local shop and they will top it up for you, or search for a Maroc Telecom shop - just about every small town has one and larger towns have one per neighbourhood.
No issues with compromising the security of the phone and worked fine on both iPhone 11, iPhone 14 and the data router in our motorhome. We could stream Amazon prime, BBC Sounds and Spotify but not Netflix or BBC iPlayer using the Marc telecom connection.
In February this year we were paying 50 Dirham, about £4 for a 5Gb data sim which included phone and text calls in Morocco but not out of the country. We just used iMessage, Facetime and Whatsapp for everything.
From memory I think we paid 30 Dirham - £2.50 for the actual sim card plus the 50 Dirham top up.
If you run out of data, just call into a local shop and they will top it up for you, or search for a Maroc Telecom shop - just about every small town has one and larger towns have one per neighbourhood.
No issues with compromising the security of the phone and worked fine on both iPhone 11, iPhone 14 and the data router in our motorhome. We could stream Amazon prime, BBC Sounds and Spotify but not Netflix or BBC iPlayer using the Marc telecom connection.
Edited by AlBondigaz on Wednesday 23 April 08:12
First task in any exotic country, pop into a mobile phone shop and pick up a data loaded sim, pay attention to the service coverage. May need to do some research, e.g. one may be cheaper but doesnt work in remote areas.
They do make me laugh UK telecom providers with their roaming addons - I think they rely on people leaving roaming on and rakcing up the fees... what a sad business practice
They do make me laugh UK telecom providers with their roaming addons - I think they rely on people leaving roaming on and rakcing up the fees... what a sad business practice
Another vote for using an E-Sim and not using the UK sim whilst abroad.
Costs are very reasonable in comparison, example below
https://saily.com/esim-morocco/
Costs are very reasonable in comparison, example below
https://saily.com/esim-morocco/
Nicko_12345 said:
iPhone 11 will not support E-sim.
Not an iPhone user - but the internet seems to disagree with you without exception? (i.e. https://esim.holafly.com/how-to/esim-phones/ ) I checked before I wrote my reply.We go to Barbados pretty much every year to visit the inlaws - usually first day we go and get a local sim.
This year, we used Airalo (app available in the app store) for an e-sim, much simpler, and very cheap. So cheap that when I first looked into e-sims I thought it was too good to be true, but my brother in law recommended them as he uses them whenever he's in the US .
The Morocco offering is 5GB for 30 days for £25.00 or £16 for 3GB for 30 days.
Dead simple to set up, and you can apparently do it all from home, and it will start the 30 days when it connects to the Foreign network. It's what we will be doing from now on.
Edited by Motorman74 on Friday 25th April 10:27
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