Proximus review

A prepaid card starts at €5, and top ups are available so you can add credit to the same card instead of buying a new one for each trip. Proximus is a carrier, which means the data runs on its own home network. Treat the starting price as the floor, not the whole trip cost.

Those destinations sit in Zone A, where Proximus charges a single daily rate, while global Zone B is charged at a higher daily rate. Europe and the UK stay inside the Belgian plan instead. The global reach means you pay by the day only where the home plan stops.

The daily roaming pass is charged for a limited number of days per calendar month, with a separate monthly ceiling in each zone, so a long haul across 190 to 200 destinations needs planning. Mobile data abroad is also blocked once usage reaches a spending threshold that you can ask to raise.

Proximus is a carrier founded in 1994 and based in Belgium, operating as Proximus public limited company under Belgian Public Law. That means your data runs on the home network and needs a physical prepaid card, which suits readers who want a local number rather than a trip only eSIM.

Support runs on chat, phone and help centre, so you have phone and chat alongside a self service help centre and a community board. That mix matters more abroad, where a blocked connection is harder to sort out than a billing question at home, and the carrier setup means help matches your home plan.

5G is listed as available, and 5g and carrier plan pairs it with a carrier plan rather than a travel eSIM. In practice 5G abroad depends on the host network in each of the 190 to 200 destinations, so a day rate in a Zone A country is what unlocks it.

Coverage runs to 190 to 200 destinations and the region is listed as global, which puts it above the site median of 74 countries. For a reader weighing a home carrier against a travel eSIM, that range is the main comparison to make.

The card starts at €5, which places it at 149 of 313 brands ranked on starting price. eSIMGo.is begins lower at $0.99, while SimToIsrael begins at $25, so the gap is about what kind of plan you want.