SIM card for travelling to Europe from India
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Much cheaper to buy local card.
Indians usually buy Lycamobile or Lebara sim cards, prices are very low even if you want to call back to India (1-3 cents). Mobile internet is also quite cheap, and you usually don't need documents to buy this cards. They even support roaming, so you can use them in other EU and non-EU countries.
If you going to some Indian stores, you can get them with 1-2 eur, also sometimes you can order them online for free.
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For those traveling to Schengen countries from India in 2019, with Amsterdam as the first stop, my advice is to take a prepaid sim. I took a 3GB data plan with a 30-day validity from Lebara that came for within 15 Euros (less than 1200Rs in todays forex rate) and I used it for a lot of Whatsapp. Link: https://mobile.lebara.com/nl/en/unlimited/c/prepaid-internationaal-bellen-unlimited
You can use a Lebara App to check on data usage There maybe other options but I didn't bother exploring as the friend who I was traveling with took the same plan a day before I did as the plan came with a liberal Lebara - Lebara plan 500 free mins + 500 free SMS).
About whether 3GB is sufficient: I'd say yes After 14 days of travel across 3 schengen countries (Netherlands, France, Italy) , my friend was left with 0.5 GB and I was left with 2.6GB - I used offline google maps, Uber, basic google and Whatsapp, while my friend was far more liberal in his usage.
PS: Don't forget to disable or take out your indian SIM ASAP, else pay up like I did on international roaming charges.
If you plan to use the indian SIM< bear in mind that just 2 days of using Whatsapp on my generous Vodafone RED postpaid connection plan, cost me close to Rs 5000. (~65 EUR). I am just planning to remove my SIM next time, lesson learnt.
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