Australia & New Zealand Travel eSIM
One eSIM for Australia & New Zealand — the Tasman on one profile.
Plans & prices
Buy now — the plan activates when you land, not when you pay.
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Where the Australia & New Zealand plan works
Australia and New Zealand is one journey with a short flight in the middle. Getting there from Europe or North America takes the better part of a day, which is why so few people do it for one country — the Tasman hop is three hours and the second country is usually already on the ticket.
This is the strongest plan family on any of our pair pages. More plans qualify here than for any of the European pairings, which means more sizes and more validity lengths to choose between. Every one of them carries both AU and NZ; that is what puts it on this page.
Coverage deserves a plain answer rather than a reassuring one. Australian networks follow the coast and the major highways. The interior has long stretches with no signal from any operator, and a travel eSIM has exactly the same footprint as a local SIM on the same network — better hardware does not conjure a mast. New Zealand is proportionally better covered but still has real gaps in Fiordland, on the West Coast and through the central North Island. Offline maps before a road trip, in both countries.
The Pacific islands are not included by being nearby. Fiji, Vanuatu, the Cooks and the rest carry their own country codes and appear only where a plan’s coverage panel lists them by name. A genuine island-hopping itinerary belongs on the Oceania plan.
Only one of the two? Then buy the single-country plan — Australia or New Zealand — because a pair profile earns nothing on a trip that never crosses.
A Australia plan on its own starts at $4.99, a New Zealand plan at $5.49 — $10.48 for two profiles, two QR codes and two allowances that don't move between them. Every plan below covers both countries on one profile, from $4.49.
What each plan covers
Every plan below covers both countries. Some reach further — open one to see exactly where it works.
1 GB · 14 days — 2 countries
Australia · New Zealand
2 GB · 15 days — 2 countries
Australia · New Zealand
3 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Australia · New Zealand
5 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Australia · New Zealand
12 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Australia · New Zealand
10 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Australia · New Zealand
20 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Australia · New Zealand
25 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Australia · New Zealand
Country pages for each member
How to install it
- 1
Buy in a minute
Pick a Australia & New Zealand plan and pay. Your QR code arrives by email within minutes — no account, no shipping.
- 2
Install on Wi-Fi
Scan the code before you fly. The profile sits alongside your normal SIM and stays switched off until you need it.
- 3
Land connected
Turn on data roaming for the TravelNet line when you arrive. The plan starts counting down on that first connection, not at checkout.
Will my phone work?
You need an eSIM-capable, carrier-unlocked phone: an iPhone XS or newer, a Pixel 3 or
newer, or a recent Samsung Galaxy S, Z or A-series flagship. Dial *#06# — if
an EID number is listed alongside the IMEI, the phone has an eSIM.
Other regional plans
One profile, one allowance, no swapping SIMs at a border.
Planning a multi-country trip? Find the plans that cover every stop →
Australia & New Zealand eSIM questions
Why pair two countries that are three hours apart by plane?
Because almost nobody flies to one from the northern hemisphere without adding the other. It is a twenty-four-hour journey to get there and a short hop between them, so the two-country trip is the normal shape of the trip. The plan family that covers both is the largest on this site's combo pages.
What has to be true for a plan to appear here?
AU and NZ both on its coverage list. Nothing on this page covers Sydney and stops at Auckland, or the reverse. Each plan's coverage panel is the exact list of what it reaches — read it rather than inferring from the plan's name.
Is the allowance shared between the two countries?
Yes. There is a single balance and the Tasman crossing does not touch it — gigabytes burned in Queenstown come off the same number as gigabytes burned in Perth. No reactivation on landing, no reset, no second QR code.
How is coverage outside the cities?
Honestly, thin in places, and no eSIM changes that. Australian coverage follows the coast and the highways; the interior has long stretches with nothing at all, and that is true of local SIMs on the same networks. New Zealand is better proportionally but has real gaps in Fiordland, the central North Island and parts of the West Coast. Download offline maps before you drive either country.
Is 5G available?
Around the big centres — Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch — provided you picked a badged plan and your handset speaks the right bands. Step outside those and it is LTE, which reaches vastly further and is what nearly the whole road network runs on anyway.
Does it cover Tasmania?
Yes, Tasmania is part of Australia under AU. The same coverage reality applies as on the mainland: solid around Hobart and Launceston, patchy in the highlands and along the west coast.
What about Fiji, Vanuatu or the Cook Islands?
Each of those is a separate territory with a code of its own, and none is swept in by being nearby — a plan reaches them only when its coverage panel names them outright. For genuine island-hopping, the Oceania plan is the product built for it.
Do I need to register anything on arrival?
No. Buying a prepaid SIM over an Australian counter involves showing identification; New Zealand asks for nothing. Neither rule bites here, because a roaming profile never enrols you as anyone's local subscriber — no paperwork at either airport, no shop to find.
Would two separate plans be better?
Rarely. Splitting the trip means two balances, and whichever leg you sized wrong strands data on the other. Unless the second country is a single-night stopover, one profile across the pair is the cleaner purchase. The standalone pages exist regardless: New Zealand and Australia.
When does the plan start counting down?
On its first connection to a network in either country, not at checkout and not on the connecting flight. Install it before you leave home; a twenty-four-hour journey is a poor time to be troubleshooting a QR code.
Can I tether a laptop?
Only where a plan is badged for hotspot use, and shared traffic then meters exactly like the phone's own. Confirm it before buying if you intend to work — the time-zone gap puts a lot of people on this route online at odd hours with a laptop open.
Which networks will I be on?
Whichever partner carrier is strongest at your location, decided on the ground rather than fixed at purchase, which is why no single operator name appears anywhere on this page. What it means in practice is one of the big national carriers on each island, not some regional also-ran.