ICELAND SIM CARD

When travel to Iceland, you can buy a local sim card for your convenient especially self drive friends. You can check the weather and the road conditions anytime.

Where to buy the local sim card?

It's simple,just buy it at Iceland's airport or 10-11 store by using credit card or cash.

Rent wifi router or buy Icelandic sim card?

Compared to wifi, Iceland mobile network is more faster and wide coverage including the black sand beach and glacier areas,the signal may be weak but can call anyway.

Do we need local sim card if the car come with GPS?

You are given GPS when buy a self drive package. You need to upgrade to get GPS if rent car only. However suggested to buy a sim card as the weather in Iceland is unpredictable. If you are stuck somewhere because of a snowstorm you able to let your hotel know that you are running late or get recommendations where you can go if the road is going to be closed.

What are the local mobile network operators in Iceland?

There are four major mobile network operators: Siminn, Nova, Vodafone and Tal.

Siminn is the market leader with the best coverage and it is certified the fastest mobile network in Iceland at slightly higher rates.

Nova is a new mobile network and popular among the youngsters in Iceland. Nova the cheapest and good when you stay mostly in Reykjavik.

Vodafone is the biggest competitor of Siminn. It's coverage quite good,even at some place better than Sinminn.

Tal has less users and primarily for Icelandic family services and are not practical for travelers.

How much for the Icelandic sim cards?

Siminn offers 2 prepaid plans:

2900 ISK for 10GB data

2900 ISK for 5GB data, 50 min talk, 50 texts

Nova offers 1490 ISK for 1000 ISK call, 1GB data,100 min talk

Vodafone offers 2490 ISK for 5GB data,100 min talk