Data for Sydney, Melbourne, the east coast and the outback drive between them, installed before the long flight. Australia is on the Oceania plan with New Zealand, so a trip that does both stays on one eSIM.
The Australia plan covers Australia only.
The same 10 GB in a package that keeps working past Australia.
1 other country shares the package with Australia. A few of them:
What's included, when it starts, and how to get connected.
Sydney to Melbourne is nine hours by road; Sydney to Cairns is a three-hour flight; Perth is closer to Singapore than to Sydney. Domestic flights are the trains here — Qantas, Virgin and Jetstar are frequent and cheap when booked ahead. Plan one region properly rather than the whole country badly.
Sydney (Opal), Melbourne (myki) and Brisbane all take contactless bank cards or phone wallets at the gate now, so there is nothing to buy on arrival. Sydney’s ferries are the best-value harbour cruise in the city. Between cities, hire a car for the coast and fly the rest.
The UV index in an Australian summer is routinely extreme, and a mild 24°C day burns fair skin in fifteen minutes. Hat, sunscreen and shade between eleven and three are the local rules. Swim between the flags on patrolled beaches — rips are the real danger, not sharks.
December to February is summer and the school-holiday crowd; June to August is winter, mild in Sydney and cold in Melbourne. Tropical Queensland and the Northern Territory have a wet season from November to April, when the Great Barrier Reef is stinger season and some outback roads close. Autumn and spring are the easy months almost everywhere.
Australia is close to cashless; even market stalls take a tap. Card surcharges of one or two per cent are common and shown at the till. Tipping is not expected. Prices include the 10% GST.
Australia is on the Oceania plan, so the same eSIM works in Sydney, on the Great Ocean Road, in Cairns and in Perth without anything to change. Coverage follows the local network: strong in the cities and along the populated coasts, good on the main highways between them, and absent across long stretches of the interior — the Nullarbor, the centre, the far north — where no network reaches on any SIM.
For an outback drive, download offline maps, tell someone the route, and carry water; the phone is a passenger out there, not a safety net. New Zealand is on the same package, so a trip that does both keeps one allowance across the Tasman.
Answers about data, coverage and setup for Australia.
In the towns and on the main highways, yes; across the long empty stretches between them, no network reaches on any SIM. Treat the phone as a passenger there: download offline maps and your bookings, tell someone the route, carry water, and expect the signal back at the next town. On the coast, in the cities and along the east coast highway, coverage is strong the whole way.
Yes. Australia and New Zealand are the Oceania plan: one package, one allowance, and the phone picks up a New Zealand partner network when you land in Auckland, Christchurch or Queenstown. Buy the length for both countries together, since validity starts with the first connection.
Almost every visitor needs an authorisation before flying: the ETA (applied for in the official Australian ETA app) for passports from many countries, the eVisitor for most Europeans, or a visitor visa for the rest. Apply on the official government channels, not through agents; the ETA app itself is the cheapest route. The eSIM has nothing to do with the visa, but the approval is a good thing to have on the phone when you land.
