

I stream audio over data, but never video. Having spent a couple of weeks in each country, I never really felt the urge to buy or use a local sim card.

You get on a flight, turn on airplane mode, turn it off after touch down, and you have network and data even before you get off the plane. I had traveled to India and China in 2019, and it is as simple as that. You need not buy a local sim card to whichever country you travel to. You can land in any of the 200 countries and territories it offers its services in and just start using data services like you’re back home. Google Fi, previously known as Project Fi, seems like this futuristic mobile network with no international roaming charges in 200+ countries and free international calling to 50 something countries from the US.
