TIPInstall before you fly. Your plan only starts when it first connects at your destination.

Calls and texts (and keeping your number)

kimsim is data only, with no calls or SMS. Keep your home SIM on for calls and texts, at your home carrier's rates.

kimsim plans are data only. There's no kimsim phone number, so no normal calls or SMS on our line.

Your phone can run two lines at once (dual SIM), so you don't lose anything:

Keep your home line for calls and texts

iPhone

  1. Settings → Mobile Service → Default Voice Line.
  2. Choose your home line.
  3. Then Settings → Mobile Service → Mobile Data → choose kimsim. More on that.

Pixel and most Android Settings → Network & internet → SIMs → set Calls preference and SMS preference to your home SIM.

Samsung Settings → Connections → SIM manager → set Calls and Text messages to your home SIM.

Keep data roaming off on your home line

Otherwise your home carrier can charge for data. Why.

Calling over data

WhatsApp, FaceTime and other calling apps work over kimsim data. Messaging apps.

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