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title: "Working abroad with a Mac: internet, eSIMs and what’s blocked, by country · Kilobat"
url: "https://kilobat.app/travel"
description: "Working from China, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Turkey, India or Vietnam with a Mac: what’s blocked, which calling apps work, SIM and eSIM rules, the law on VPNs and hotel Wi-Fi sign-in."
---

Travel

# Working abroad with a Mac.

In a few countries the internet works differently: some services are blocked, calls in common apps don’t connect, a SIM needs a passport or biometrics, and hotel Wi-Fi wants a local phone number. These guides say what to expect, with a source for every claim.

- [China](https://kilobat.app/travel/china): East Asia
- [United Arab Emirates](https://kilobat.app/travel/united-arab-emirates): Middle East
- [Russia](https://kilobat.app/travel/russia): Europe and Asia
- [Turkey](https://kilobat.app/travel/turkey): Europe and Asia
- [India](https://kilobat.app/travel/india): South Asia
- [Vietnam](https://kilobat.app/travel/vietnam): Southeast Asia

## What each guide covers

- What’s blocked or restricted
- Calling apps
- How mobile data reaches your Mac
- What the law says about VPNs
- SIM and eSIM registration
- Hotel and café Wi-Fi
- Prepare your Mac before you go
- Where Kilobat helps

Sources are government and regulator pages, embassies’ travel advice, operators’ own pages, and reputable news outlets and research for what officials don’t publish. Latest check: 1 November 2026. The guides describe the rules; they don’t give legal advice or ways around them.

When a service won’t load, Kilobat tells a network block, or a service’s own “not available in your region” answer, apart from an outage: see [blocked here, not down](https://kilobat.app/is-it-down#blocked-here) and [“not available in your region” answers](https://kilobat.app/docs/health#region-unavailable).

For the network problems you meet anywhere, see [Kilobat for digital nomads](https://kilobat.app/digital-nomads), [hotel Wi-Fi sign-in on a Mac](https://kilobat.app/hotel-wifi-login-mac) and [saving hotspot data](https://kilobat.app/save-hotspot-data).

## Know whether it’s the network, the country or you.

[Download for Mac ↓](https://kilobat.app/downloads/Kilobat-1.31.1.dmg?via=site)

```
brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat
```