On the live India-country ladder, the eligible 10 GB 30-day dest totals this pass are Ubigi $15, Sim Local $19.75, Yesim $20.91, Nomad $21, GigSky $22.79 and Saily $23.99. Airalo prints $24 at 10 GB 30-day and falls outside the six. Dest has no GigSky India-country 50 GB SKU; the cheap 50 GB country row is Nomad 50 GB 30-day at $43, so the 180-day out rule stays quiet and GigSky ranks fifth. Roamless, aloSIM and ByteSim publish no India-country SKU on dest. No two eligible totals meet, so named-host tiebreak stays unused. Sixth is Saily.
Opensignal's India Mobile Network Experience Report for February 2026 (collection 1 October to 29 December 2025) covers Airtel, BSNL, Jio and Vi. Opensignal's own February 2026 key findings name Jio Best Network, with Jio winning eight awards outright and sharing one (nine wins including one joint). Verified figures on that report include Jio sole Download Speed Experience (107.3 Mbps; Airtel 58.2; Vi 25.1; BSNL 9.0), Airtel sole Games Experience (70.6), Airtel sole Voice App Experience (79.5), Airtel sole Upload Speed Experience (8.4 Mbps; Jio 8.0; Vi 5.9; BSNL 2.5), Video Experience shared by Jio and Airtel (65.0 and 64.9), Jio sole Reliability Experience (864 on a 100-1000 scale), Jio sole Consistent Quality (68.9 per cent of tests), Jio sole 5G Download Speed (198.9 Mbps; Airtel 185.9; Vi 134.8), Airtel sole 5G Upload Speed (19.3 Mbps; Vi 17.0; Jio 13.0), and Vi sole wins on 5G Video Experience (73.9), 5G Games Experience (81.8) and 5G Voice App Experience (83.0). Those scores describe the national MNOs. They do not name a host for any pick. Do not copy Jio, Airtel, Vi or BSNL from Opensignal onto a pick that did not print them.
TRAI Press Release No. 116/2026 (Telecom Subscription Data as at end-July 2026, released 28 August 2026) records wireless (mobile) subscribers at 1,287.92 million and overall tele-density at 94.68 per cent (with M2M in the published tele-density method). Annexure-II wireless (mobile) bases at end-July 2026 put Reliance Jio Infocomm at 506.03 million, Bharti Airtel at 489.49 million, Vodafone Idea at 199.06 million and BSNL at 93.18 million. Secondary write-ups of that release print matching share figures of about 39.29 per cent Jio, 38.01 per cent Airtel, 15.46 per cent Vi and 7.23 per cent BSNL. Those regulator shares are market structure. They are not a shop host.
India is not an EU member state and is not in the EEA. European Commission roam-like-at-home does not cover a visit on an India-country travel eSIM. A prepaid India-country travel eSIM is priced on the storefront's own terms. Do not invent RLAH for this corridor.
Kashmir, Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan stay empty as coverage claims unless that shop names the place. No ranked shop named those places as coverage on an India-country SKU this pass. Nomad's India shop prints an overseas-territory hedge and markets Mumbai, New Delhi and Kolkata. Sim Local ESFX-0695-SL1 coverage copy names Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai and hedges Himalayas and Rajasthan desert parts as limited - that hedge is Sim Local-only. Yesim names Ahmadabad through Surat on its city list. Do not invent a cross-border or island latch from Jio or Airtel presence alone.
Aadhaar-linked KYC for a physical India prepaid SIM is Confirming this pass as a travel-eSIM product claim. Yesim's India shop prints ID verification: Not required. The other ranked India shops retrieved this pass did not print an Aadhaar line on the country SKU pages. Do not invent a shop KYC step from DoT prepaid rules alone.
The dest 10 GB, 30-day country order among the six ranked picks is Ubigi, Sim Local, Yesim, Nomad, GigSky, Saily. Once a plan registers on an Indian network, top-ups stay inside that provider's app.
Delhi or Mumbai night counts plus a daily data figure for long-haul rail or a Goa stretch: open the six ranked country rows when both are fixed. Plan Match at /plan-match turns the same two India inputs into a size without leaving this shortlist.
