HelloRoam vs Maya Mobile

Which fits your trip?

These two brands sell data differently, so the choice tends to follow how you buy rather than a single price. HelloRoam is a fixed-data catalogue: its cheapest sourced single-country entry reads from $2.09 (1 GB for 7 days in Iceland), with brand-stated tiers running from 1 GB to 50 GB. Maya Mobile is unlimited-led, built around one global plan that bundles its country list into a time window. Its global unlimited plan is consistently sourced at USD 9.99 for 3 days and USD 27.99 for 14 days, and its cheapest sourced single-country entry reads from $3.33. A short trip where you need only a gigabyte or two points toward HelloRoam's lower floor; an open-ended trip where you would rather not count megabytes points toward Maya's flat unlimited window.

Reach is sourced on different footings here, so read it carefully. HelloRoam carries a sourced plan row on 70 of Simscanner's 72 tracked country pages and states 185+ countries on 204+ carrier networks, both verified. Maya Mobile is sourced on 54 of 72 tracked country pages, spanning 7 of its 8 regions (only the Caribbean has no sourced row yet). Maya's wider global figure is shown as a modelled estimate in the matrix above; the brand's own pages state 165+ countries plus 20+ cruise lines, read from maya.net, but Simscanner has not yet promoted that to a verified head-to-head number. So HelloRoam holds the larger verified country footprint on this site today, while Maya's full breadth is still being mapped page by page.

The unlimited and fair use difference is the sharpest contrast for heavy users. Maya Mobile publishes its rule plainly: data is never fully cut off, speed steps down to 10 Mbps after 3GB used in a day and to 1 Mbps only on very heavy use, with full speed restored within 24 hours (sourced from its Unlimited Data Plan Guidelines). HelloRoam states "no throttling during the plan period", which reads as no slowdown at all; a single Simscanner hands-on test of its US unlimited plan instead measured roughly 6 GB/day at full speed before dropping to about 1 Mbps for the rest of that day. That tested figure covers the US plan only and is not assumed elsewhere. In short, Maya tells you its daily threshold up front, whereas HelloRoam's published claim and one measured result do not match, so plan for the lower of the two if you stream or tether all day. Hotspot is available on both: HelloRoam includes tethering free on the same plan allowance, and Maya allows internet sharing on iOS and Android subject to the local network.

Operator transparency also differs in what Simscanner has verified. HelloRoam's operator is sourced as Future Syncs Ltd, London UK. Maya Mobile's operator cell reads as a modelled estimate in the matrix above, though its brand profile records Mobile Maya Inc., registered in Nassau, Bahamas, with terms governed by Delaware law. KYC default and the per-brand performance scores are modelled estimates for both, and there is no overall winner. As a rough guide grounded in the sourced numbers: pick HelloRoam if a low fixed-data entry price and the broader verified country footprint matter most, and pick Maya Mobile if a stated, transparent unlimited cap on a flat time-based price fits the trip better.

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