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helloakariqyesterday at 7:46 AM1 replyview on HN

Thank You! Can you please tell me your destinations?

I plan to make the higher volume data plans cheaper very soon. I'm happy to provide you temporary code to make it cheaper for longer visits you have soonish. Can you e-mail me at `[email protected]`? I don't see an e-mail on your profile.

The one thing I want to add is that cheaper also depends on quality. So for example, if you look at Vietnam - I may not be cheaper than Airalo. But ... a big but, I offer network on Viettel while Airalo does on VTC. So, I am cheaper for what you get for the quality. In addition, I don't route data via HongKong or China to make it cheap. I have in country / region networks for like 87 countries and I keep improving [0]. Very few providers on the market can guarantee that.

[0] https://akariq.com/en/network-quality/


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tibiapejagalayesterday at 9:08 AM

I can confirm that you are completely right about Vietnam mobile networks. I could only reliably work after getting a real viettel sim. Even viettel branded stores sell some bootleg sim to tourists that work terribly.

The problem with eSIM is that usually there is no way to judge the quality until you buy one, so people sort by price and choose the cheapest. If your solution offers the best network in the country then I’m interested, because even at x2 or x3 price it doesn’t matter much compared to the other expenses when traveling.

Not sure how you can convince customers outside the hn bubble.

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