About this site

Most eSIM sites compare prices. This one starts one step earlier, with the thing that decides whether the phone works at all: what the country's own regulator does to a handset, a call, or a line.

From catalogue to a rule we can prove
  1. 204 countries with plans

    the operator catalogue we sell from

  2. 39 checked for rules

    searched for a regulator's own text, 10 Aug 2026

  3. 10 with a rule found

    device blocking, VoIP limits or line caps

  4. 10 read at the regulator

    the document itself, not a summary of it

How a rule gets published here

A regulator's own document, or it does not count

A law-firm summary, a news report or a competitor's blog is a lead, not a source. Until the text itself is read, the page says so in those words.

Every figure carries the date it was checked

Rules change without notice. A number without a date is a number you cannot verify. Current corpus checked 10 Aug 2026.

Negative results are published too

Georgia turned out to have no device-registration rule at all; the Philippines' 30-day SIM limit is not in the statute. Those findings are on the site, because 'we looked and found nothing' is an answer people need.

We retract in public

Five claims of ours have been withdrawn after re-checking, including one about Thailand's 60-day rule that our own note got backwards. The correction sits in the same place the claim did.

How the site makes money

We sell travel eSIM plans. The profiles come from Airalo's operator catalogue, we buy them at partner price and resell them at our own — the margin is about 57% before payment fees, and it is the same on every country. There is no advertising on the site, no affiliate links to other sellers, and no sponsored placement.

That creates one obvious conflict, so here is the rule we hold ourselves to: a rule page never argues that an eSIM solves a legal problem. Where a country blocks calls over messaging apps, our product does not restore them, and the page says exactly that instead of selling around it.

Who writes it

Nadezhda Semenova, who writes eSIM Rules

Nadezhda Semenova

Entrepreneur, co-founder of the travel service Trippy

Seven years in business Co-founder of Trippy Plekhanov University

I build travel services and I fly a lot myself. eSIM did not start as a business idea for me — it started as the ordinary problem of landing somewhere with no internet and having to find a phone shop instead of going to the hotel. I founded a clothing brand that sold ₽150m, ran it from the first production run to a team of fifteen, and co-founded the travel service Trippy. My degree is in finance, from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

What I am not is a telecoms engineer, and this site does not pretend otherwise. Its value is not inside expertise but inside method: the rule is read on the regulator's own document, the figure carries the date it was checked, and where we could not check, the page says so. That method is set out in the editorial policy. The Russian half of the same work is esimmir.ru, and the same person signs both.

The seller behind the checkout is JET SHARING MOBILITY LLC, trading as eSIM energy, registered in the United States. Terms, refunds and the name that appears on your bank statement are on the terms of sale; what we store about you is on privacy.

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Nothing here is legal advice. Rules are quoted with their date and their source so you can check them yourself — and where we could not check, the page says that instead.