Between us, we have spent 13 years inside the global telecom industry — building networks, designing infrastructure, watching how data moves across borders.
We knew how it all worked. And that is precisely what bothered us.
Because even with all that knowledge, every time we landed in a new country, the first morning went the same way. Drop bags at the hotel. Find the nearest shopping mall. Go to a local SIM vendor. Negotiate a plan in a language we half understood. Hope it would actually work before the first meeting.
We were telecom professionals doing what every tourist does — wasting the first half of day one just to get connected.
The cost was irritating. The inconvenience was predictable. But the thing that really stayed with us was a question neither of us could answer cleanly:
Where does our data actually go when we hand it to a foreign network?
We knew enough to know the answer was not straightforward. Data routed through resellers we'd never heard of. Processed by carriers we'd never agreed to. Stored in jurisdictions with privacy laws that varied wildly. For most travellers, that is invisible. For us, it was impossible to ignore.
So after 14 years of building the industry from the inside, we decided to build something better on our own terms.
GoLinko is the eSIM we always wished existed. Instant. Transparent. And built on one principle that no one else had made their foundation:
Your data stays in our own network infrastructure - not resold, not rerouted, not out of our hands.
