Photo caption : L-R: Chief Operation Officer, EmoSIM, Aditya Khosla, Founder & CEO, TheHouse 48 Inc, Elvis Eboma, Group Chief Executive Officer, WAKANOW, Bayo Adedeji, Immediate Past Chairman, National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), Tony Agenmonmen, Director General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission(ICRC), Dr. Jobson Ewalefoh and the Immediate Past Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC), Prof. Umar, Dambatta
during the Official Launch of EmoSIM (travel eSIM) in Lagos yesterday.
…Connects Seamlessly In 190 Countries With 600 Connectivity
EMOSIM has launched Nigeria’s first travel eSIM, revolutionizing global connectivity for travelers and businesses.
This innovative solution provides seamless access to voice, SMS, and data coverage in over 190 countries without physical SIM cards, airport queues, or surprise roaming .
The new product has the ability to stay connected in 200 countries and regions with reliable and wide-reaching coverage
It is also budget friendly with no hidden fees, just fair prepaid rates.
Benefit of the product to the country includes’reduction in foreign exchange outflows by using a local solution, potentially saving millions of dollars, fast-track digital adoption in Nigeria and enhance connectivity across the region,
showcase Nigerian ingenuity and innovation in solving universal connectivity challenges.
To make it a success, EMOSIM has partnered with Tata Communications to power its entry into the Nigerian telecommunications market, leveraging their industry-leading MVNE platform.
The eSIM solution set to significantly reshape global connectivity for travellers and businesses, while simultaneously addressing critical foreign exchange outflows for the nation.
This strategic launch positions EMOSIM not merely as a new market entrant, but as a disruptive force leveraging Nigerian ingenuity to solve universal connectivity challenges.
“Today marks a pivotal moment, not just for EMOSIM, but for every Nigerian traveller, entrepreneur, and dreamer who has ever felt the weight of the world’s digital divides,” asserted Jimmy Eboma, Chairman and Founder of EMOSIM said.
He highlighted the chronic frustrations of international roaming, exorbitant charges, complex SIM changes, and fragmented networks, which EMOSIM directly tackles.
“EMOSIM is not just a product. It is a revolution built on a simple truth that connectivity is not a luxury; it is a lifeline,” he stated, emphasising the solution’s seamless global access across 190 countries with 600 connectivity options, all without swaps, shocks, or borders.
The economic ramifications of EMOSIM’s local solution were a central theme.
The Chief Executive Officer, Wakanow, Bayo Adedeji, a major travel platform, illuminated the financial bleed caused by reliance on foreign eSIM providers.
“Companies like ours, we buy the eSIM from another company outside Nigeria. We bleed foreign exchange to that country. The Nigerian customer pays me Naira. I pay the company that I buy the eSIM from in US dollars. And now we bleed that US dollar out from profit to cost,” Adedeji explained.
He noted, “Now with having a local organisation, having that solution, it’s about 1.5 billion customers at Wakanow.com. It means that I can give that product to 1.5 billion customers and reduce the foreign exchange bleed out that happens in Nigeria.”
Adedeji further stressed the potential for collaboration between Nigerian brands to take a Nigerian product outside of Nigeria, attracting foreign exchange back into the country.
The launch also garnered strong support from regulatory and industry bodies. Prof. Umar Danbatta, former Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), praised EMOSIM for fulfilling the NCC’s vision for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs).
“You are truly helping to solve a real problem, providing affordable, reliable telecommunications services to people who have historically been left behind,” Danbatta remarked, commending EMOSIM’s alignment with universal access pillars: availability, accessibility, and affordability.
The Director-General of the ICRC, Dr Jobson Ewalefoh, underscored the importance of global partnerships, noting how Tata Communications, EMOSIM’s technical partner, signifies a growing international trust in Nigeria.
“The way Tata, the global giant in telecommunication, has believed in us and has partnered with us, I would like to look at that as a trust that Nigeria is able to build across the globe, and Nigeria is looked at as an opportunity, and at the same time, seen as one of the leading emerging market countries.”
The immediate past President of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN),Tony Agenmonmen, attested to the solution’s direct business utility, sharing anecdotes of past travel frustrations.
“When you go to some other countries, the instructions you give them in that way, they don’t understand, and it can be a big challenge,” he said, expressing confidence that EMOSIM’s offering brings a kind of confidence that good things can come from Nigeria.
“Africa does not follow trends. We set them. Nigeria does not wait for the future. We build it. And with EMOSIM, we are connecting ambition to opportunity, potential to progress, and Nigeria to the world,” he said.
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