Where does your eSIM actually connect from?

When you buy a travel eSIM, your phone connects to a local network — but your internet traffic doesn't necessarily leave the internet in the country you're standing in. It often exits somewhere else entirely.

Almost no eSIM seller tells you where. We decided to measure it across our own catalogue and publish the result.

What we measured

On 28 October 2026 we checked every plan we had on sale: 3,088 plans. For each one we asked a single question — in which country does the internet traffic leave the network?

So in 4.11% of the plans we sell, your traffic leaves the internet in the country you are actually in.

What this is not

This is a measurement of our own catalogue, not of the eSIM industry. We sell 3,088 plans; other sellers have different ones. We are not claiming to have measured theirs.

"Varies" does not mean "exits abroad". It means the plan has more than one possible exit point, or the information is given as a region rather than a single country. We count it separately on purpose — folding it into "exits abroad" would make our headline number look worse than the evidence supports.

Why it matters

Websites and apps see the country your traffic exits from, not the country you're standing in. In practice that means:

• Banking apps may flag the session or ask for extra verification.
• Streaming services show the catalogue of the exit country.
• Local services — government portals, transport sites, local payment pages — may be unavailable or behave differently.
• More CAPTCHAs, because shared exit addresses are used by many users.

None of this makes a plan bad. A plan that exits in Singapore can be faster and cheaper than one that exits locally. It is simply something you should be able to know before you buy, not after.

How we measured it

• Scope: every plan that was active and purchasable on 28 October 2026.
• We used the site's own definition — the same code that prints the exit country on each plan page. No separate interpretation for this report.
• A plan with two SKUs counts as two rows.
• No rounding tricks: the raw count is shown next to every percentage.
• "No exit information" is counted and shown separately. If that number is anything other than zero, our promise that every plan states its exit country is not true for that many plans.

Where we got this

Every plan page on this site states its exit country. This page simply counts them. You can check any individual number yourself by opening the plan.

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