Tunisia is a four-hour flight from the UK, but for your phone bill it is a different continent. None of the big four UK networks includes Tunisia in their Europe zone, so the free-ish roaming you get in Spain or Greece stops at the Mediterranean. What replaces it is a daily charge of £7–8 per phone, or — worse — pay-as-you-go data billed by the megabyte. This page keeps all four networks' Tunisia charges in one honest table, with the small print that matters.
Rates checked October 2026 against each network's published pricing and current price guides. Networks move these numbers every spring, and some depend on when you joined — treat the table as a close guide and confirm your own rate in your network's app before you fly.
| Network | Tunisia roaming product | Daily cost | Fortnight | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE | Travel Data Pass (Rest of World Zone 2) | around £8 | £112 (or £80 with two 7-day passes) | Older plans pay £7.50; days run on UK time, not Tunisian; no pass = no data at all, calls £1.80/min |
| O2 | O2 Travel Bolt On, or standard Rest of World rates | £7 where the Bolt On applies | £98 — or far more on standard rates | Check Tunisia is on your plan's Bolt On list; otherwise data is billed per MB and calls cost around £2/min |
| Vodafone | Rest of World daily charge (Tunisia sits in Zone 3 on the pay-monthly list) | £8 in the zones we could verify | £112 | Rose from £7.86 on 14 April 2026; your plan's zone list decides — confirm Tunisia's rate in My Vodafone |
| Three | Rest of World (no Go Roam pass for Tunisia at the time of checking) | no daily pass — per-MB rates | uncapped — set the £45 limit | Three's Rest of World destinations have no daily charge and no UK allowance: every megabyte is billed; a £45 + VAT monthly cap applies by default |
| eSIM Tunisia (this site) | 10GB / 30 days, prepaid | — | £14.99 flat | Data-only — your UK SIM stays in for texts and your number |
Two things the table cannot show. First, the charges are per line — a family of three roaming on EE pays around £336 for a fortnight, not £112. Second, most passes unlock your UK allowance rather than add data, with fair-use rules abroad, so "unlimited" plans usually are not once they cross the Mediterranean. Three's pay-monthly plans, for example, cap roaming data at 12GB a month even where a pass exists.
The networks' Europe zones follow the EU roaming map, give or take a few extras like Switzerland and Norway. Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt and Turkey all sit outside it, in the "Rest of World" tiers, where the price is set per network and per zone. That is why a week in Hammamet costs more to roam than a month in Portugal, and why the networks' holiday-roaming adverts are quietly silent about North Africa.
Landing with data roaming on and no pass puts you on the network's standard Rest of World rates. On O2 that can mean several pounds per megabyte; on Three it means every background app refresh is metered until the £45 cap trips and your data stops. Landing with roaming on and a pass-based plan auto-charges the daily rate from your first background sync, before you have opened a single app. There is no configuration where doing nothing is free. The two safe states: data roaming off entirely, or data roaming off on the UK line while a prepaid Tunisia eSIM carries the holiday.
Tunisia's three networks — Ooredoo, Orange Tunisie and Tunisie Telecom — all sell tourist SIMs, and all three have counters in the arrivals hall at Tunis-Carthage. A basic SIM runs to about 15–20 dinars plus a data bundle, which is genuinely cheap. The catches: Tunisian law requires every SIM to be registered to a passport, so there is a form and a queue after a four-hour flight; counters at the resort airports (Enfidha, Monastir, Djerba) keep shorter hours and sometimes want cash; and your UK SIM comes out of the tray, so bank codes and calls to your UK number stop until you swap it back. A prepaid eSIM gives you the same local-rate data without the counter, the form or the SIM swap.
Our 10GB / 30-day plan is £14.99 — one payment, 4G/LTE data on the main Tunisian networks, no daily meter, no fair-use asterisk. Against the table above that is a saving of around £83 (vs O2's Bolt On) to £97 (vs EE or Vodafone) per phone per fortnight, and it is a smaller number still against per-megabyte rates. Your UK SIM stays in the phone with roaming off — number, WhatsApp and bank texts all keep working. Setup takes two minutes at home: the full walkthrough is here, and the dual-SIM settings are in our keep your UK number in Tunisia guide. Not sure which size you need? The plan finder works it out from your trip length.
Is Tunisia in EE, O2, Vodafone or Three's Europe zone? No. All four treat Tunisia as Rest of World. Only Three's Go Roam Europe-style passes stop at the EU map; the others charge a Rest of World daily rate.
Are incoming texts charged in Tunisia? Receiving texts is free on all four networks, which is why the keep-your-SIM-in, data-off approach preserves bank security codes at no cost. Receiving calls can cost up to £2 a minute on some tariffs — let unknown numbers go to voicemail and ring back over WhatsApp.
Which UK network is cheapest for Tunisia roaming? If your O2 plan includes Tunisia on the Travel Bolt On, £7 a day is the lowest daily pass we found; EE and Vodafone are around £8. Three has no pass for Tunisia at all. Cheapest of an expensive field is still many times the price of a prepaid eSIM.
When was this page last updated? October 2026, from the networks' own price guides and the roaming-rate trackers listed in the page source. If a rate changes, this table changes.