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GIBRALTAR · GibTel · 5G

eSIM for Gibraltar

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Data on your phone the moment you land in Gibraltar. No account, no app, no shop.

  • Hotspot included
  • Starts when you connect, not when you buy
  • Your number stays on your phone
See the packs · from 4,34 €

Gibraltar

Photo: John Cummings · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Data on the local networks in Gibraltar. It reaches your inbox in minutes and you install it before you leave.

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Choose your data

For one to two weeks of maps, messaging and the odd video.

Buy up to 180 days before you fly: the plan only starts when the eSIM connects at your destination.

How many travellers? 1
Gibraltar eSIM · 5 GB · 30 days 6,74 €

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Will it work on my phone?

On iPhone: Settings → General → About, and scroll to EID. If there is an EID, your phone takes eSIMs. Every iPhone from the XS (2018) onwards does.

On Android: Settings → About phone → Status, and look for EID. If there is an EID, your phone takes eSIMs. Most Galaxy S20, Pixel 3 and later do.

It also has to be carrier-unlocked. If you bought it outright or your contract is over, it almost certainly is.

Not sure about your model? Ask us before you pay and we will tell you — a person answers within 24 hours.

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Coverage

The networks you connect to in Gibraltar

  • GibTel 5G

Your phone picks whichever of these has the best signal where you are, and switches on its own. Nothing to configure.

Work out my data

Gibraltar left the European Union with Brexit, so a Spanish or French plan stops having EU roaming the moment you cross the border. It is a few metres of difference and your phone is already on another tariff. This eSIM avoids that jump: install it before you go and you connect to GibTel, the local network, on 5G. It is still useful for a day trip, because your phone can latch onto Gibraltar without you noticing.

Before you buy

A base on the Costa del Sol, with a few days on the Rock

Most visitors walk or drive in from La Línea, often from a holiday base somewhere between Málaga and Sotogrande. If your plan is from the EU, it keeps working in Spain as at home, so what you need is data for the hours on the Gibraltar side. The 3 GB pack fits that: it lasts 15 days from its first connection in Gibraltar, so a second or third visit in the same fortnight runs on the same pack.

Use the phone's two lines for it. In Gibraltar, make the eSIM your data line and turn off data roaming on your own SIM, so it cannot run up data charges if it latches onto GibTel. Back in Spain, swap them. The 5 GB pack lasts 30 days, which suits a month in the area with regular trips across. Near the fence, if the data stops, choose GibTel by hand: the Gibraltar pack only works on that network.

Flying in from Britain, or touring Andalusia from further away

Gibraltar's airport has flights from the United Kingdom, and many British travellers land there for a stay in Spain or a week split between both sides. Visitors from outside Europe often see the Rock as one day of an Andalusia road trip through Ronda, Tarifa, Cádiz and Seville. In both cases the Gibraltar pack covers only a few square kilometres of the trip.

For these routes the Europe pack is the one to look at: it covers Gibraltar, Spain and the United Kingdom on the same eSIM, so the frontier queue, the road across the runway and the drive on to Marbella make no difference. It comes in 3 GB for 15 days and 10 or 20 GB for 30 days. Morocco is not part of it: for the ferries to Tangier from Algeciras or Tarifa you need a separate Morocco eSIM.

Crossing borders?

One pack, 33 countries

The packs above only work in Gibraltar. For about 1 € more these work across all of Europe — same eSIM, nothing to change at the border.

3 GB Europe · 33 countries · 15 days 6,90 € 2,30 €/GB
Recommended 10 GB Europe · 33 countries · 30 days 15,90 € 1,59 €/GB
20 GB Europe · 33 countries · 30 days 23,90 € 1,20 €/GB
Questions

Travelling to Gibraltar, answered

I am arriving on a flight from London. When do I switch it on?

When the plane lands. Install it at home from the QR in your email, then turn on data roaming for the eSIM line at Gibraltar Airport: that first connection starts the 15 or 30 days. If you are heading straight on into Spain, the Europe pack fits better, because the Gibraltar one stops at the frontier.

Is there a Gibraltar pack bigger than 5 GB?

No. Gibraltar has only the 3 GB and 5 GB packs. If you need more, the Europe pack goes up to 10 and 20 GB for 30 days and covers Gibraltar as well.

I am only crossing for the day. Is it worth it?

It depends what your operator charges for a day outside the EU. What tends to happen by accident is that your phone latches onto the Gibraltar network from the Spanish side, near the crossing, and starts charging before you have even walked over.

I am visiting Gibraltar and then Spain. Which pack?

This one covers Gibraltar only. The 33-country Europe pack includes both Spain and Gibraltar, so if your trip mixes the two sides, that one works out better and there is nothing to change when you cross.

Carrying on?

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Who is behind this

A person, not a call centre

Snoozim is run from Barcelona. It exists because paying for roaming by the day on a short trip made no sense. If something goes wrong with your eSIM you write, and the same person who built this answers you, within 24 hours.

Founder · Barcelona

+34 642 18 96 34

Travelling later?

Going to Gibraltar later? We remind you before you fly

Tell us the day you leave. We email you a week before and the day before with the steps to install the eSIM on Wi-Fi at home. Nothing else.

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