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Who is this Bulgaria eSIM for?

With a Belgian or Dutch SIM card, Bulgaria is EU territory like any other: the roaming rules apply and your plan works at your domestic rate. This eSIM is for the traveller outside that system: someone arriving on a SIM card from outside the EU, who may also need to register to buy a Bulgarian prepaid card — a requirement noted in independent research on SIM registration across Europe, though the exact procedure isn't publicly documented. It also covers anyone on an unusually cheap or unlimited home plan hitting the fair-use data limit, and anyone staying in Bulgaria for months at a stretch for work or study.

Mobile internet, 4G and 5G in Bulgaria

Bulgaria shows the same reversed pattern as Slovakia. Nationally, basic 5G reached 94.83% of households in 2025, just below the EU average of 96.79%, and 86.79% in sparsely populated areas — the European Commission names Bulgaria among seven member states lagging on rural 5G. But where Bulgaria does have 5G, it's often the high-capacity kind: the 3.4–3.8 GHz band reached 79.62% nationally, above the EU average of 74.75%, and 49.1% in rural areas against an EU average of 33.71%. The gap is basic 5G reaching the countryside at all, not the quality of the 5G once it's there.

Your Belgian or Dutch plan in Bulgaria

Bulgaria is in the EU, so 'Roam Like at Home' applies: your plan works at your domestic rate.

Two things still matter. On a very cheap or unlimited plan, your operator may cap what you use abroad, in proportion to what you pay each month, and must tell you in advance and alert you once you reach that limit. And over a stay of at least four months, they may check whether you spend more time outside your own country than in it and use more abroad than domestically — only if both are true, and after a warning with at least two weeks to adjust, may a surcharge be applied.