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If you find any plans where you think the prices for countries that feel too high just let me know and I’ll manual override them to the best I can to make a fair price!

Haha you're awesome! It really depends. If you travel to many different countries then silent.link might be better but it depends on the countries. Also for some people pay-as-you-go might be more attractive.

Paraguay is 84$ for 20gb 🥲 Silent.link doesn't work there

Hey, I added an override for Paraguay so the packages should be cheaper now! Unfortunately the packages I buy from there are already super expensive. With scale I hope there will be a way I can buy packages in bulk so they are cheaper for the end user but for the immediate future this is the best price I can offer!

Awesome! Yeah it seems South America is expensive everywhere. Thank you!

Silent Links’ pricing per GB seems to vary a lot depending on the network you’re connected to, which makes it a bit tricky to figure out. On Sovran, we’ve worked to make this much clearer—you can see everything laid out simply on the product page: That said, I don’t want to throw shade at other companies in the space—users seem to like them, and that’s great. My focus is on making sure Sovran provides clear, fair pricing for eSIMs. We are still finding our footing but I think you might be surprised how cheap our eSIMs are. We more or less match the prices of Silent and in many cases are cheaper. Users will pick what they feel is right for them.

Depends.It is expensive for some countries in Asia sovran.money is much cheaper

Sovan vs silent in China mainland, slient link price is insanely high

does your sim support the expensive networks? nevent1qqswlm5gemm3snuwc29pkx8eghqc6kdv4ge06pzcnw5yuxu945skepc6wwxhq

On the invoice page it shows which networks / operators are supported for the package you are buying. If you had some specific networks you need to use it would be worth checking, it's normally not a consideration for me but I could imagine it is for some if you are in Alaska or something.

It's not less important in Europe, if you care about connection quality. For some messages over **** not relevant.

just checked and expensive ones like telekom not available

Our provider doesn’t currently offer non-expiring eSIMs, so that isn’t possible at the moment. We also offer Global eSIMs—you’ll find them listed as the first two items in the region list here:

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What do you mean they expire? Says they can be topped up

I meant balance expires

Balance of what

Can’t you see? They only offer data packages for limited period of time

Okay, I've taken an even closer look, at the entire product offering. This looks really cool.

Thank you! I worked hard on this, if you have any issues just let me know!

Unlimited data plans aren't contractually possible to offer in the US as far as I can tell. Banned by the big tech cartel

@Laura 🌞 Having trouble zapping you now. Getting "failed to get invoice"

Should work now ☺️

Thanks for reporting this, it should be fixed now. I zapped you some sats you can use towards your next eSIM ☺️

That's leadership 👏

yeah, I think silent link is pretty cool for a certain demographic. I'm the type of person that roughly knows how much data I consume when I travel so the Sovran eSIMs work well for me. I definitely designed this product for me 😅 I want to add more providers for truly global & no expiry because I know that is a sticking point for many. I have done research on this like once a month and I'm always unsatisfied with the providers. Thanks for the feedback, the future of eSIMs is definitely no-expiry and probably global and I think once the tech gets better we will see more providers offer this.

if you can get this working, there a lot of features that you or silent link could implement which would make the product even better like NWC, working SMS balance notifications, topup and data analytics in app, widgets…

I could simulate no-expiry in a way by using NWC if I trigger a topup near the end of the eSIM expiring or when data is running low. SMS balance notifications would be pretty easy to add, right now we show how much data / duration is left on your invoice page. You gave me a lot to think about and perhaps I should prioritize this.

the no-expiry is about no-balance-expiry not the esim

monthly/auto topup might be interesting for some people tho

Yep I know it’s not quite the same thing