In this aspect, what does people on here think about the eSim provider Saily[0][1]?

[1] Actual operator is 1GLOBAL alias TP Global

* Provision of Services The Services to Customer will be provided by our Technology Partner - TP Global Operations Limited, a limited liability company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 14109189 whose registered office is at 109 Farringdon Road, Farringdon, London, EC1R 3BW, UK (“1GLOBAL”). *

https://saily.com/legal/b2b-terms-of-service/

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Y_Y 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They have a lot of obnoxious advertising which makes me not trust them.

I've used Airalo without much hassle, but I can't say that they're any better. I did have an incident where the phone I was using broke, and I was unpleasantly surprised to find that I couldn't just load the eSIM onto the replacement phone, seems like you only get one shot at downloading it.

(Dragonpass is pretty good though, I recommend getting that through a credit card or whatever if you spend a lot of time habging around airports.)

	▲	unixhero 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had to edit and take out my reasoning for asking (I said why I liked it), as it seemed like I was shilling the service, which I wasn't intending to do. Thank you for the insights!

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philipwhiuk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

1 GLOBAL is owned by 1GLOBAL Holdings B.V.

Registered address: The Valley - Beethovenstraat 505 North tower, Level 6. Amsterdam 1083HK, Netherlands

So we're at 3 levels of indirection on ownership already.

In practice, 1 Global is the trading name of TP Global because it's the successor company to 'Truphone':

> In 2022 the Company was selected in a competitive bidding process, conducted by a UK court appointed administrator of Truphone Limited (“Truphone”), to acquire all the business and assets of Truphone (the “Acquisition”).

And this company was an investment option for Russian oligarchs:

> In December 2024, German Manager Magazin revealed that Russian oligarchs Abramovich, Abramov and Frolov, who had previously owned 96% of Truphone and invested more than €360 million in the company, could still benefit from any success achieved by 1Global.

So yeah, maybe avoid.