>Never one to shy away from offering anonymized criminal services to the masses, Pavel Durov has announced that you can now buy world-wide eSIMs from a special app inside Telegram called @Mobile. After choosing your region and country, you choose the eSim you want, and then can purchase it paying with Pavel's built-in cryptocurrency, TON, or a credit card if you want to be easily traced by law enforcement.
To be fair these look like data-only esims, for which there are a bazillion vendors online selling them anyways (eg. https://esimdb.com/). Pavel is certainly monetizing his platform to market these, but there isn't much point in singling him out specifically.
rurban•3mo ago
Maybe that's why I had to give up getting an Australian prepaid SIM for a month. Tried 3 different companies, I fully paid for the card (got no eSIM phone yet), and always failed with SW errors at the verification steps. Looks like they are selling services which they locked down.
gruez•3mo ago
To be fair these look like data-only esims, for which there are a bazillion vendors online selling them anyways (eg. https://esimdb.com/). Pavel is certainly monetizing his platform to market these, but there isn't much point in singling him out specifically.