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Slingshot Mobile Roaming Rates
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Going overseas? Use your NZ mobile plan for just $8/day in over 100 destinations worldwide. There’s also Roaming Data Add-ons for faraway places.
No set up is required, it just works - activating when you hop off the plane.
How can I track my roaming costs?
You can check your balance and stay on top of your usage in the Slingshot Mobile App, or online at My Slingshot.
What triggers the $8 a day roaming charge?
In our $8 a day roaming destinations, the $8 charge will be triggered as soon as you do any of the following:
- Make a call
- Receive a call
- Send a text
- Allow an incoming call to divert to voicemail
- Use mobile data (this includes any apps refreshing in the background of your phone, which make be happening all the time without your knowledge)
To avoid these charges, you can switch to flight mode and connect to local WiFi where available.
Which countries can I roam in?
$8 per day destinations
Use your NZ plan in these destinations for only $8 per day in these countries.
(a day counts as 00:00 to 23:59 NZ time)
- Australia
- Anguilla1
- Antigua & Barbuda1
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Austria
- Barbados1
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands1
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Cayman Islands1
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Cook Islands (additional $1.15/min to receive calls^)
- Costa Rica
- Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- Croatia
- Cyprus1
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominica1
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Fiji (additional $1.15/min to receive calls^)
- France
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada1
- Guatemala
- Guernsey2
- Guyana1
- Haiti
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Isle of Man2
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica1
- Japan
- Jersey2
- Kenya
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Macedonia
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat1
- Morocco1
- Nauru (additional $1.15/min to receive calls^)*
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea (additional $1.15/min to receive calls^)
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Romania
- Samoa (additional $1.15/min to receive calls^)
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Saint Kitts and Nevis1
- Saint Lucia1
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Tonga (additional $1.15/min to receive calls^)
- Turkey
- Turks & Caicos1
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States3
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu (additional $1.15/min to receive calls^)
- Vatican
- Vietnam
1 Max speeds limited to 300kbps
2 Covered by UK
3 Travelling to the US? Here’s a quick update on things you need to know.
^ When roaming in Fiji, Cook Islands, Western Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga and Papua New Guinea it costs $1.15 per minute to receive calls on your device. Calls rounded up to next whole minute. In most cases it's best for you to call your family and friends.
* Covered by Digicel Fiji
Roaming Data Add-on destinations
For the destinations listed below, the following calling and text roaming rates apply:
- $3.45 per minute to call anywhere in the world**
- $1.15 per minute to receive any call
- $0.91 a text sent to anywhere in the world**
**Does not include premium or satellite numbers.
To use roaming data in these destinations, you’ll need to purchase a 500MB Roaming Add-on for $57. You’ll be prompted to do this in the welcome text we send you when you arrive in your destination.
Tablet and iPad users will not receive a welcome text and will need to insert their device’s SIM card into a mobile phone and text Y to 237 to purchase the data Add-on.
Destinations included in the $57 Roaming Add-On:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brunei, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Finland, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guam (Northern Mariana Islands), Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Honduras, Iceland, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Liberia, Martinique, Moldova, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Timor Leste, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
No Data destinations
$3.45/min to make calls (excluding premium numbers); $1.15/min to receive calls; 91c to send texts (excluding premium numbers)
Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Cuba, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Lebanon, Lesotho, Maldives, Mali, Mauritius, Namibia, New Caledonia, Niger, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Suriname, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago
No service destinations
In these destinations there are no calling, text or data roaming services available at all:
American Samoa, Andorra, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Iran, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mayotte, Micronesia, Monaco, Netherlands Antilles, Niue, Norfolk Island?, North Korea, Palau, Pitcairn, Reunion, Russian Federation, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Senegal, Somalia, Swaziland, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Venezuela, Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara
In-flight and cruise Ship Roaming
It’s easy to use your 2degrees mobile while flying or cruising, whether you’re on Prepay or Pay Monthly.
- Calling: $5.05 per minute
- Receiving calls: $1.15 per minute
- Sending texts: $0.91 per text
- Data: Data roaming is not available
Cruising
Please note that cruise ship roaming is restricted to certain routes, so check with your cruise liner if roaming is available on your vessel.
Click here for participating cruise ships.
In-flight
In-flight roaming is restricted to certain flights so check with your airline whether your flight is set up for In-flight roaming. Please click here for participating airlines.
In-flight Roaming will only work on selected aircraft that have In-flight Roaming equipment installed. Check with your airline for routes, destinations and the availability of In-flight Roaming. The use of In-flight Roaming may be restricted by the airline to reduce cabin noise. All calls will be charged on a per minute basis and will be rounded up to the next whole minute. In-Flight Roaming services are provided via satellite so you may notice speech delays of up to 3 seconds.
Cruise ship roaming will only work on selected vessels that have roaming equipment installed. Check with your cruise liner for routes, destinations and the availability of cruise ship roaming. All calls will be charged on a per minute basis and will be rounded up to the next whole minute.
Cruise ship and In-flight roaming rates exclude calling and texting premium rate and satellite phone numbers.