1 · The short answer
A small company stops paying roaming bills by giving each traveller a data eSIM that sits next to their work SIM. Ringo Light's Global plan is $49.99 a month for 133 countries, unlimited data at full speed, and renews until you cancel, which suits anyone who travels every month. For the occasional trip, a one-payment trip plan does the same job with nothing that renews. The work number keeps ringing on the work SIM, and every purchase comes with a Stripe receipt by email that goes straight into expenses. The plan is at ringoesim.com/global.
The rest of this page is the version I would want if I ran the office: where the money goes today, what changes, and how to hand it to a team without a project.
2 · Where the money goes today
In most small companies nobody owns the travel phone bill. It turns up in three places, and none of them is a budget line.
- Day passes and bill shock. The work SIM roams, the carrier charges a daily pass for every day the phone touches a network abroad, or a price per megabyte outside the zones it covers. A week at a client in New York or Zurich shows up a month later, on someone else's desk.
- Local SIM cards on expense claims. A kiosk at arrivals, a receipt in another language, sometimes a passport scan, and a SIM swap that takes the work number out of the phone for the whole trip. Then the claim, the chase for the receipt, and the card in a drawer.
- Employees on their personal plans. The cheapest-looking option, and the hardest to see: people roam on their own line and either swallow it or claim a share of a personal bill that finance cannot check.
3 · What Ringo Light is for a company
Ringo Light is our own data eSIM. It installs once, next to the SIM already in the phone, and carries the data abroad. It does not carry calls or texts, and it does not move a number: the work SIM stays in the phone and keeps doing that.
- The work number keeps ringing. Calls, texts and login codes still arrive on the work SIM. Turn data roaming off on that line and the carrier has nothing to bill for data. Our dual SIM guide has the settings on iPhone and Android.
- A receipt for every purchase. Each eSIM and each monthly Global payment is a card payment through Stripe, and Stripe sends a receipt by email for each one. Forward it to whoever keeps the books and it is done; there is no monthly statement to reconcile against a dozen trips.
- Two kinds of plan, one rule. The Global plan is the only one that renews: $49.99 a month for 133 countries, for the people who travel every month. Everything else is a trip plan with nothing that renews: the Europe plan covers 33 countries, 2 weeks for $22.99 or 30 days for $35.99; the United States plan is 2 weeks for $17.99 or 30 days for $22.99.
Before you buy for anyone, check the phone. Most recent iPhones, Pixels and Galaxy phones take an eSIM, but a phone on a carrier contract can be locked to that carrier, and a locked phone refuses any other eSIM. Our guide to which phones support eSIM has the 30-second check.
4 · Rolling it out to a team
There is no system to set up. Pick whichever of these matches how your company already spends money.
The traveller buys. Each traveller buys their own eSIM with the company card, installs it at home on Wi-Fi, and forwards the Stripe receipt with the trip name. This is the simplest version and the one I would start with: the person who knows the dates buys the plan for those dates.
The office buys. Someone in the office buys the eSIM for the trip and forwards the install email to the traveller. An eSIM installs once, on the phone that opens it, so send it to the person who will use it and ask them to install it before the day they fly.
Either way, write one line into your travel rules: data roaming off on the work SIM, eSIM on for data. If something does not connect on arrival, our twelve fixes for an eSIM not working abroad are in the order that solves most cases fastest.
5 · What a month costs
Our comparison of global eSIMs priced the brands most people search for on the same day, 28 September 2026. Here is Ringo Light against the cheapest rival in that chart, with what each one sells.
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Prices change; the comparison post has every brand and the full method.
6 · Which plan for whom
- Someone who travels every month: the Global plan, $49.99 a month for 133 countries, unlimited data at full speed, renewing until you cancel. One eSIM for every trip, nothing to buy before each one. ringoesim.com/global
- A trip to Europe now and then: the Europe plan, 33 countries, 2 weeks for $22.99 or 30 days for $35.99, nothing that renews.
- A trip to the United States: the United States plan, 2 weeks for $17.99 or 30 days for $22.99.
The card below sells the Global plan; the trip plans are on the same card and on their own pages.
7 · Buying for a team?
Buying for a team? Write to us through the contact form. Tell us how many people travel, where they go and how often, and we will reply. Today each eSIM is bought on the site, one at a time, the two ways above.
Ringo Light is the data eSIM we sell while we build the full Ringo service. What is on sale today is what this page describes.
