GoLinko was born from the frustration of two founders who spent careers inside the industry — and still couldn't trust the networks they landed on. So they decided the world deserved something better.
Between us, we have spent 13 years inside the global telecom industry — building networks, designing infrastructure, and 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, and 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 had never heard of. Processed by carriers we had 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.
Same eSIM category. A fundamentally different model.
Most eSIM providers are resellers. They buy data from carriers, mark it up, and route it through infrastructure they don't own or control. That's fine — until you ask where your personal data lives. Most can't give you a straight answer.
GoLinko was built differently from the ground up.
It never leaves our network — not handed to a reseller, not rerouted through a carrier you didn't agree to.
No roaming surprises. No fine-print fees. What's shown at checkout is what lands on your statement.
We built on the same infrastructure standards used by enterprise telecoms — not bolted on after the fact.
150+ countries. Direct carrier relationships. No middlemen in the chain.
Three things we won't compromise on.
We didn't add privacy to GoLinko as an afterthought. We designed the entire architecture around it. If it's not private by default, it doesn't ship.
We'll never bury a cost in the fine print or make cancellation deliberately complicated. If something changes, you'll hear it from us directly — not in a bill.
You shouldn't have to think about your connection. You should just have it — from the moment you land, before you clear customs. Every product decision we make is in service of that one idea.