Talk:Singapore/@comment-80.243.107.234-20180207011525/@comment-24682153-20180207023211

Hello Daniela. A lot of users face the same question. You want to have data in Singapore and Thailand. Basically, you have two options.

1.) Buy a SIM card in the 1st country (here: Singapore) and use it roaming in the 2nd (here: Thailand) or

2.) buy two seperate SIM cards in both countries.

Internatl. roaming means that you use a SIM card from one country (Singapore) in another (Thailand). Usually, this is charged very high and you can't use domestic data packages for this.

What Singaporean providers are concerned they offer special roaming options to be added for an extra price. $10 for 1GB with SingTel  or $15 for 2GB with M1 in Thailand. Normally, you can add these passes to voice and & data SIM cards only, not to Mobile Broadband SIMs. If you can't add a roaming pass, you will charged a much higher price instead. Better check locally, if you want a Mobile Broadband SIM. With Starhub you can use your domestic allowance in Thailand. This may be the cheapest option, but you will have no 4G/LTE in Thailand, only 3G. This is sufficient for WhatsApp messenges, but WA calls or websites may be tricky.

The other choice is to buy an extra SIM for Thailand. This is very easy, because in Phuket at the airport you can find all three major providers with good offers (not like in Singapore where they are overpriced at the airport). You will pay around THB 200-300 for a SIM with a few GBs which is more or less the same as the $10-15 pass from SIngapore and becomes cheaper if you use more data. If you choose the 2nd option, check our Thailand chapter.