April 2019 update: now 4-Week 2GB/$18 or 4GB/$25 - please read comments, deal not otherwise updated
October 2018 update: Happy Roam data plans have slightly increased in price (details below have not been updated)
Supported Destinations: Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States of America
Same deal as before, but now works in Japan, South Korea, Philippines, NZ.
Buying it
This SIM is only sold in Singapore/on-board Jetstar flights but roams to many different countries. This works super well with Jetstar trips that stop by Singapore because you can buy the SIMs onboard; they include a free hot drink!
Alternatively you can but these at the Singapore airport at the UOB money exchange counters.
This SIM is positively awesome for a SE Asia trip! You can use whatever data you have left back home too!
Starhub has LTE/4G roaming, I tested this in Indonesia/Hong Kong; also gives unrestricted Internet access in mainland China without VPN (eg Google Maps, Gmail etc)
Prepaid SIMs
- $15 SGD with $18 of credit
- $32 SGD with $32 of credit, 15GB/10 day local data, 2GB/10 day int'l data
- $50 SGD with $50 of credit, 15GB/10 day local data, 5GB/10 day int'l data (UOB only)
Spend credit on:
- 1GB/ 3 days $5
- 1GB/ 7 days $7
- 1.2GB/30 days $10
- 2.4GB/30 days $15
- 3.6GB/30 days $20
For example, you can buy a $32 SIM which includes 2GB int'l, then spend the credit on 2 x 2.4GB data packs for a total of 6.4GB of int'l data over ~ 70 days
Supported Countries:
- Japan
- South Korea
- Singapore
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Hong Kong
- China
- Indonesia
- Macau
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- UK
- USA
How to use
You need to have bought a valid domestic (Singaporean) data plan before and activate Happy Roam by (star)123(star)333#. Your APN needs to be switched to 'shppd'.
Source
T&C:
- Roaming partners and additional information available in the link.
- Cannot be combined with the Changi Airport $40 voucher
- Recharge will last for 180 days so to keep this SIM alive you just need to topup once every 6 month and you can use it every time you travel to those countries. Credit also rollover on recharge. Able to be recharged with Aussie CC.
Does anyone know if the expiry date printed on the back of the SIM (or SIM-packet) is a drop dead date, regardless of it being active and in credit, or is it just a 'must be active by' date?
My 2 sims have expiry date later this year. Have had them since April 2018, and have achieved 4 trips with them across 6 countries so far, so have worked a treat in terms of ease & cost.
Trying to work out how we approach a Japan trip in Sept in terms of existing credit on the sims, any topup we make and if we keep them active post the trip, as may not have anything planned for some time. Not flying via Singapore on this trip - so am unable to check with Starhub in the Changi terminal.