eSIM for North America

Three countries: the United States, Canada and Mexico. Nothing else is included. If your route touches Guatemala, Belize, Cuba, Jamaica or any Caribbean island, the plan stops working the moment you cross that border, and no warning appears first.

Geography puts Central America, the Caribbean and Greenland inside North America. Mobile operators draw the line somewhere else. This plan uses the operator definition, which is the three big mainland markets and nothing south of Mexico. Panama, Costa Rica and Cuba are not on it. Our Latin America and Caribbean regional pages each list their own country count, so check yours there rather than assuming.

The reverse question is the one worth asking. Do not ask whether North America is covered. Ask whether Belize is. Write your itinerary out country by country, then match each line against the three. US territories are worth a message to support before you buy, because a plan sold for the United States does not automatically reach Puerto Rico or Guam.

No. If you fly to New York and home again, the USA eSIM is the cheaper buy. Our single country plans for the USA, Canada and Mexico all price lower per gigabyte than the regional plan, so the honest answer is two clicks away on their own pages.

The regional plan earns its price when your route crosses at least one of the two land borders. A Pacific coast drive from Vancouver down to Tijuana. A month of work in Toronto with a week in Chicago. A winter that starts in Calgary and ends in Baja. Those are the trips it was built for.

Buying three separate country plans instead looks clever until you count the leftovers. Each one is its own bucket with its own QR code, and the gigabytes you did not use in Canada cannot be spent in Mexico. Stranded data across three buckets usually costs more than the premium on one regional plan.

The best rate on this region is $1.79 per gigabyte, on plans of 20GB or less. The $1.58 you see at the top is the entry ticket for a very small day plan. It is not the rate you will pay across two weeks of travel.

Every eSIM site shows a from price, and it is almost always the smallest, shortest plan on the shelf. It tells you nothing about the plan you will actually buy. Divide price by gigabytes and compare that number instead. Across the 16 plans on this region the pattern is consistent: short day plans cost the most per gigabyte, and the rate falls as the bucket grows.

Work out roughly what you use at home, then cut it. Maps, messaging and boarding passes are light. Video is not. Most travellers overbuy on the first order, and a smaller plan topped up later costs less than a big bucket that expires half full.

No. There is no unlimited plan on this region, at any price or on any validity window. All 16 plans here are fixed data buckets. When the bucket empties the data stops, and there is no unlimited tier sitting above it to fall back on.

That is worth saying plainly, because it rules some people out. If you tether a laptop all day, run video calls from the road or upload footage every night, a travel eSIM is the wrong shape of product for you. A local US postpaid line, or a travel add on from your own carrier, will serve you better.

It also changes how you read the word unlimited elsewhere in this market. Most travel plans sold as unlimited carry a daily allowance and slow down sharply once you pass it. Read the fair use line before you compare one against a fixed bucket, because the two are not the same product.

The plan card names a local network in each country: Rogers in Canada, Telcel and AT&T in Mexico, Verizon and AT&T in the United States. You do not pick between them. Your phone selects whichever covered network is strongest where you happen to be standing.

Two shutdowns matter more than most travellers realise. The big US carriers switched off 3G in 2022, and Rogers began retiring its own 3G network in August 2025. There is no slow fallback left anywhere on this route. A handset missing the right 4G or 5G bands shows no service rather than a weak signal, so check your model before you rely on it.

Roaming traffic also sits behind a network's own customers when a cell is busy. In a stadium, an arrivals hall or a border town at rush hour you may see full bars and still wait for a page to load. That is ordinary congestion rather than a fault, and it usually clears within minutes.

No. Mexico began requiring new local mobile lines to be linked to an identified user in January 2026, but that rule covers lines sold by Mexican operators. A foreign travel eSIM enters the country as roaming, so there is no passport registration step for you.

That matters if your backup plan was a Telcel SIM from the airport. Bring your passport and allow time at the counter. Neither the United States nor Canada asks for anything similar, so a Mexico eSIM bought before you fly is the shortest path through all three countries.

Land borders hand over on their own, though your phone can cling to the old network for a few minutes after you cross. A short flight mode toggle settles it. Be realistic about the far edges too. Deep rural Mexico and remote northern Canada thin out for every roaming product, and no eSIM beats a local line in the backcountry.

Do not buy this plan if you are visiting one country. The USA, Canada and Mexico country plans are cheaper per gigabyte, and buying the regional one anyway means paying more for coverage you will never touch. Do not buy it if your route runs south of Mexico or out into the Caribbean, because those countries are not on it and nothing on this page will make them appear. Do not buy it if you need unlimited data, because no unlimited plan exists on this region and no amount of topping up changes that. And if you live in the United States, read your own carrier plan first. Several US carriers already include a Canada and Mexico data allowance, which can make this purchase pointless for a short hop north or south.