Compare eSIM plans for the Faroe Islands

Eighteen islands, cliffs on every side, and a mobile network that quietly outperforms the scenery. Two carriers serve the archipelago, Hey, the consumer brand of Føroya Tele, and Vodafone Føroyar, over a backbone of fibre links to Scotland and Iceland and a set of equipped sub-sea tunnels (sources: Internet Society Pulse, ITU DataHub). You will have signal in places that look impossible and lose it on a footpath twenty minutes from a village. Planning around that, rather than around the map, is what makes a Faroese trip work.

• ●Tórshavn and the tunnel network are the easy part. Coverage follows the roads, the ferry terminals and the villages, so Tjørnuvík, Gjógv and the drive out towards Saksun stay usable. Slættaratindur, the highest point of the islands, sits above all of it and drops in and out depending on which side of the ridge you are on.
• ●The walks are where you want things downloaded. The path to the Kallur lighthouse on Kalsoy, the crossing to Mykines for the puffins, the climb above Sørvágsvatn where the lake appears to hang over the Atlantic, the boat trip into the Vestmanna bird cliffs: offline maps and an offline copy of your tickets are worth more on these than any speed test.
• ●Then the roaming question, which catches British and continental travellers equally. The Faroes are part of the Kingdom of Denmark but sit outside the European Union and the European Economic Area, so EU roam-like-at-home rules do not apply, and a plan sold as covering Denmark or Europe may stop at Vágar airport. Access to ferry and weather pages matters here too, because a Mykines crossing is cancelled on a forecast, not on a timetable.

Sources: Internet Society Pulse: Faroe Islands, ITU DataHub: Faroe Islands, Ookla Speedtest Global Index, Visit Faroe Islands