How to Money · Monday, July 6, 2026
While Mint Mobile offers excellent value for domestic service, its international roaming capabilities are significantly lacking. For infrequent international travel, getting a local SIM card is recommended. However, for frequent travelers, services like Google Fi, which offers robust international plans, are a better, albeit more expensive, alternative.
“But there is certainly massive flaw in the Mint system that we wish state upgrade, and that is the international service royally sucks with Mint and we just experienced that in Scotland.”
“So if you travel overseas infrequently, I'm talking like once a year, once every other year, we think that going with Mint still probably makes sense. You can opt to get a local simcard on the rare occasion that you do travel.”
“The cool thing about them is that you can tovel between their two plans, and so what that means is that you can have their regular less expensive plan most of the time, but then you can bump it up to the more expensive. Uh, it's a more robust plan when you're about to hop on a plane and you're going to head to like something like one hundred and sixty to two hundred different countries where Google five works, and that nicer plan it's one hundred and ten dollars for two lines, and so you're basically looking at fifty five dollars a month there.”