Summary of US Cell phone Carriers

Here is a summary that lists US Carriers and International data rates. You can see that the old boys Verizon and AT&T have the worst rates.

Verizon is especially naughty throttling your data after .5 GB of usage per day. Both AT&T and Verizon they take data out of your existing bucket of data.

Tmobile has an interesting approach giving your unlimited SLOW 2G/3G data but charging you for calls, texts are free. They do have a nifty 15G of data for $50 add on. Google FI seems to have the best plan with free unlimited data on their unlimited $70/m plan.

Assuming that you don’t want to switch to Google FI and are happy with your current carrier an eSIM seems to be the way to go. ATT and Verizon users may only have a bucked of 2GB of data per month to use when traveling.