Dubai to provide free SIM cards to its visitors

Your travel to Dubai will now be easier and hassle-free. Visitors will now get a free SIM card with added data and free talktime; the said cards can be collected from Dubai International Airport. This means that you will no longer have to spend time and energy to buy a local SIM card when you arrive in the Emirate.

As per the General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs (GDRFA) in Dubai, tourists aged over 18 years of age with transit, visit and visa-on-arrival, can now get a SIM card at the Dubai airport’s immigration counter. The said SIM will remain valid for a month, which comes with 3 minutes’ talktime and 20 MB free mobile data. However, travellers can top up the card during their stay if they want.
The SIM card works in sync with the immigration system, which will be deactivated once the tourist exits the country. As per the news reports, to top up the SIM, the tourists can choose from three packages, i.e., small, medium, and large.
Dubai has always been a tourist-friendly destination that attracts millions of visitors from all over the world every year. As per the data provided by Dubai Tourism, this place received around 4.75 million international overnight visitors during the first quarter of 2019, in which the number of Indian visitors was the highest.
Dubai is aiming to attract 23 to 25 million visitors annually by 2025, and it has been implementing a number of facilities for the same. Also, the Emirate is looking forward to increasing its presence in prominent tourism markets and promote itself as a business destination.