Yesim review — eSIM: coverage, payment from Russia, restrictions
Yesim — The cheapest packages of the five; the harshest terms
The service operates from Baar, Switzerland; the legal entity is GENESIS GROUP AG. No payment method works from Russia directly — that is the service’s main constraint. Advertised coverage is 200 countries; how many of them actually have a plan is visible in the catalogue table.
At a glance
| Legal entity | GENESIS GROUP AG |
|---|---|
| Jurisdiction | Baar, Switzerland |
| Verification | not required |
| Payment from Russia | no |
| Payment methods | card, in the interface currency |
| Advertised coverage | 200 countries |
| Activation | not disclosed |
| Activation delay | none |
| Tethering | not disclosed |
| Own phone number | no |
| Data verified | vendor-stated |
What it is for
The vendor declares: travel abroad.
The vendor does not present this as a fallback channel for mobile-internet shutdowns in Russia. That does not mean it will fail — it means no promise is made, and you would have to verify it yourself.
What matters
- Support: [email protected] · in-app form.
- Balance when blocked: Ycoins are lost entirely.
- No voice calls — data only.
- Incoming SMS do not arrive: unusable for confirmation codes.
- The FUP threshold is not named on any plan — it depends on the partner network. Refunds apply only to an UNactivated product, within 30 days; activation counts from the first connection to a network, so you cannot test it and then return it. The liability cap is three months of payments and only for the disputed product. The storefront for Turkey and the UAE warns that the vendor’s own app may not open in those countries.
- The figures above are vendor-stated; we have not re-checked them.
What it will cost
The price depends on the basket “country + gigabytes + days”, not on a per-gigabyte figure: on an unlimited plan a gigabyte costs zero, and such a plan would top the list while saying nothing about itself. Set your own basket in the eSIM table.