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Imagine if you could keep your mobile phone line from home plus your new Spanish SIM phone number at the same time without porting your home number to Google Voice. The most important thing to do is getting it unlocked, as mentioned in step 1 above.ĭual SIM - Running a Spanish SIM and Foreign SIM at the same time If your phone is newer than 3 years old, 99% chance it'll work just fine. These days nearly all mobile phones support the various bands and systems used around the world with a few exceptions that aren't relevant to this discussion.

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Lastly, worst case - the airports in Spain have free wifi.

It’s only a $20 one time fee but your calls and data will then work off of a Spanish data plan or wifi so if you do this before you leave or you won’t have service when you land. This will allow you to use the Spanish SIM, cancel your US phone plan, but keep your US number for calls/texts on the google voice app.

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Download the Google voice app and have someone in the US (once you are in Spain & have a Spanish SIM) port your number to google voice using your google account.

Use Google maps to find a store and remember they're closed from 3pm-5pm and closed all day on Sundays.

Research which Spanish mobile network you want to join up with (see our guidance below) so you know which store to go to for a Spanish SIM card (airport shops are mostly closed).

On T-Mobile it's included for most all-inclusive plans, but double check what your plan offers.

Get a daily or monthly international plan from your US provider to get through the first few days or even weeks.

It's possible they'll refuse if you're on a payment plan or leasing the phone, but I've had T-Mobile unlock my phone twice when it wasn't paid off, so it's definitely possible. To do so, call your provider and explain that you are going to be traveling for an extended period of time and need to swap SIM cards.

How dextrous are your fingers? Better get good with voice to text! The same thing.) Almost everyone has at least one mobile phone in Spain and sending SMS text messages is extremely popular (as are WhatsApp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger). (In North America: cell or cell phones in Europe and Spain: mobile phones. One of the first things to do when you arrive in Spain is get a mobile/cell phone. Every plan we saw included tethering, but that might not always be the case. Here is an example of Lobster (Spain's English-language mobile provider running on Movistar's network) showing their Large plan offering 35GBs with unlimited texts and calling to Spain, UK, US, etc for 24€.Īlways ask about tethering (the ability to turn your phone into a wifi hotspot) to make sure it's supported by the carrier and the plan you've subscribed to. In the end we stuck with the prepaid SIM and got a fat 35GB/month plan. During our research in late 2020, the shortest contract we could find was a 6 month contract on Vodafone for unlimited data. Unlimited plans are only available for contract-based phones. Big and Unlimited plans: For bigger data plans you'll usually pay about 25-60€ per month for plans ranging from about 30GBs to unlimited.Mid-range plans: A fantastic mid-range plan from Orange.es: €12.48 per month for minimum 3 months, offering you 100GBs to use up over a six month period.I'm tempted to go buy one as a backup SIM. Boy, that feels ridiculously cheap to me. Economic plans: The cheapest complete (data + talk), prepaid mobile phone plan in Spain may come from Suop at €3.89 per month, which currently gets you 1GB of data and 100 min.

So what does that translate to for your Spanish mobile monthly cost? Let's look at some examples: (please post your own country's ratio price ratio vs Spanish mobile rates in the comments)Īccording to Visual Capitalist, the price per 1GB of data is about $1.83 in Spain in 2020, source: /cost-of-mobile-data-worldwide/ 3x the average minutes and data prices you'd pay in Russia.1/10th the rates you'll pay in Canada after currency conversion.

For your Spanish mobile phone line you'll pay about… In relation to where you're coming from, you can get a rough idea of the cost of monthly minutes and data prices according to the following ratios comparing against Spanish mobile networks' prices.

Prices change monthly, so this is really just a guide. Rates and Prices for Mobile Data in Spain (updated April 2021) Look for more information about 5G access in Spain or post your experiences in the comments section below, including speedtests, geographic availability and response times. In June 2019 Vodafone launched 5G in a handful of cities across the country while Movistar, Orange, and then finally Yoigo showing up with new 5G service availability in several cities by the end of the year.