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Founder & CEO at 1GLOBAL - Tech Telco Enabling Business

I am happy to announce my newest company and our first new product: BetterRoaming.com! I remember the days I had to travel in the heydays of AUTO1 when Softbank Vision Fund had just invested. Japan, USA, China, India, Saudi, Emirates - all of them have one thing in common: Very high roaming fees and no way to buy large packages to keep on working like at home. I didn't even dare to call an Uber in most of the destinations as the roaming fee would have been higher than the actual ride. ;) Fast forward five years, and Pyrros Koussios and I teamed up to buy telco assets and create a new platform to build new products and companies on. As a frequent traveler, I know exactly what I want: - Easy to install: No app, username, complex password, two-factor authentication. Just give me the sim card. - Not a plastic sim card! I cannot kill my main phone line. I need an eSim or it's useless to me. - I cancel 90% of my purchases if they don't offer ApplePay, sorry but I am not interested to enter all my details again in a new bunch of forms and play the 3DS game. - Fair pricing: Yes, nothing in life comes for free - but the mobile connectivity fees should not exceed the cost of the flight ticket. We are starting BetterRoaming.com with in my opinion phenomenal offers - for business travelers and leisure travelers (and Turkish grandmas on holiday!). Our 1GB plans are now all valid for one week (ideal for the people who really only want to text and call via WhatsApp) - and we offer more discounts per GB on the 3/5/10/20 GB plans: Here are some highlights (all 1GB / 7 days, higher plans with discount per GB): USD 1.99: Turkey, United Kingdom, Switzerland (shoutout to EU-Roamers!) or Australia. USD 2.49: All EU countries individually + Monaco. USD 2.99: Europe-Pack including EU + UK, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia and Albania. USD 2.99: India USD 3.99: USA or China The beauty of owning your own core network, IMSIs, SM-DP+ eSim servers and working with the hardcore best tech/telco engineers I know. But prices are not everything - we want to be accessible for everyone. It was important to me that we offer our service in as many languages as possible and keep expanding them. A sustainable customer relationship is key for us - we are not a marketplace. We want to be your first and last roaming eSim. You don't need to install another one for another country, this one is for life - when you land you always receive a text message: You just click on the URL, open our topup page in the browser, choose your plan, use ApplePay/GPay (yes, we have built a fallback Stripe-checkout) and are back online. The topup page is zero-rated which means once the sim is installed, you never need to worry about connectivity anymore - you can land 5,000 miles from home, have no Wifi or anything available and we will bring you back online with a double-click on the power-button of your phone from $1.99 per week!

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Hakan Koç

Founder & CEO at 1GLOBAL - Tech Telco Enabling Business

10mo

There is a way - if you have no screen to scan from to trigger the installation - here is the journey on an iPhone, similar on Android with the same SM-DP+ address (rsp.truphone.com) and Activation Code (QR-G-5C-KR-1PCDWP9). We will simplify the address and the code soon, so customers have a better fallback route: 1. Open Settings,  2. click on the first green icon line "Mobile Data" (it's called "Cellular" if you set US-English on iPhone),  3. click on blue line "Add eSim",  4. click on "Use QR Code", 5. on the bottom click on "Enter Details Manually" 6. Now enter the SM-DP+ Address: rsp.truphone.com 7. Enter Activation Code: QR-G-5C-KR-1PCDWP9 (copy and paste works) 8. (no need for Confirmation Code) 9. Click on "Next" in top right corner. 10. Voilà - you are in the same journey as people who scanned the QR Code!

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Hakan Koç

Founder & CEO at 1GLOBAL - Tech Telco Enabling Business

10mo
Luis Hanemann

Initiator Revent Impact Tech | Previously: Partner @ Headline VC | CMO Rocket Internet & Founder at Trust Agents

10mo

Sounds very useful, I like. What are the payment methods if you are not on ApplePay? Asking for a android user ;)

Stefan Durina

Circular e-commerce & telco pro. 2M customers, €500M GMV. Pioneering smartphone rental, subscription, resale, & recommerce solutions. 📱->♻️->💶->💚🌎

10mo

On my iPhone I open your web and what can I do with the QR code?

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John Erik Toft

TheKnot-Group - We create solutions with you and our over 30 years of practical experience on 4 continents while proving that recycling, sustainability and circularity do become passion and not just costs.

10mo

Great, but right now i need somewhere else …. Any plans for the region of Qatar, Oman, Bahrein, UAE and Saudi Arabia ?

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Michael Blaut

Automotive eCommerce at Volkswagen AG

10mo

is your product using local IPs or do get IPs from a different country than the plan I purchased?

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Christoph Gerber

CEO @ Talon.One, Founder @ Lieferando.de

10mo

Where is Brazil?

Stefan Durina

Circular e-commerce & telco pro. 2M customers, €500M GMV. Pioneering smartphone rental, subscription, resale, & recommerce solutions. 📱->♻️->💶->💚🌎

10mo

So I took my kids iPad Pro to scan the QR code from the screen of my iPhone But I receive this error

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Frederik Hermans

Entrepreneur, Investor

10mo

Great stuff, bit surprised the pricing is not easily visible on the website.

Boris Hageney

Founder at Robinsun. Serial entrepreneur. Ex-GFC, Groupon/CityDeal, GoReadyMade, Jamba. Supporter of Leaders for Climate Action

10mo
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