1GLOBAL Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Counterpoint Research Consumer eSIM Orchestration Report

1GLOBAL is proud to announce its official recognition as Leader in the 2026 Global Consumer eSIM Provisioning Competitive Ranking and Evaluation (CORE) report by Counterpoint Research. 

This welcome accolade serves as a validation of the dedication, innovation, and strategic foresight that 1GLOBAL’s teams have put into its Consumer eSIM orchestration platform.  

Counterpoint Research's CORE framework is rightfully renowned for its rigorous market evaluation, assessing leading vendors on their practical capabilities, market execution, and overall contribution to the digital ecosystem.

Trailblazing in a Rapidly Expanding Ecosystem

To appreciate the significance of this ranking, it's helpful to take a quick executive look at the broader industry context right now. The global telco sector isn't just changing so much as it is busy with a full-blown digital transformation.  

According to Counterpoint, transaction volumes across Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP) platforms grew by almost half in just 2025 alone. Growth on this sort of scale must be propelled by multiple factors, which in this case includes drivers such as heightened consumer awareness, the massive boom in travel eSIMs, and the enthusiastic broadening of eSIM-only portfolios by the major OS and OEMs. 

As the industry shifts away from physical plastic SIM cards toward a fully digital and software defined paradigm, the demand for sophisticated orchestration is surging.  

It's no longer just about piping data, and has more to do with entire lifecycle management of digital identities. Counterpoint was among the first to recognize this shift, placing heavy emphasis on automation, multi-tenancy, and advanced identity management during its evaluation. 1GLOBAL's strong performance across these metrics is a sure sign of a platform that’s designed specifically for the realities of modern connectivity. 

Why 1GLOBAL Stands Out

Telco-Native Advantage

One of the most significant differences between 1GLOBAL and other eSIM orchestration providers is its foundational heritage. 1GLOBAL isn't just a software vendor, but a fully accredited, GSMA-certified heavyweight operator with our own unique multi-IMSI global core network. 

Because we manage our own massive subscriber base (facilitating 70+ million active SIM connections and provisioning upwards of 30,000 new profiles every day) our software is comprehensively tried-and-tested under the most strenuous of real-world conditions.  

When 1GLOBAL rolls out a new API integration or a lifecycle management feature, it’s already been proven at scale on our own network. This is a network that’s built by an operator, for operators – an approach that hugely reduces integration risks for clients, ensuring the highest levels of service availability and operational resilience. 

Building Orchestration with Entitlement

As the biggest brands in the market continue to relentlessly push the state-of-the art in terms of OS and smart devices, activating a cellular plan requires more than just a default one-size-fits-all eSIM download. Devices now rely on sophisticated Entitlement Servers to securely verify a user's subscription and unlock features like 5G slice access, Vo-LTE, and multi-device sharing. 

Counterpoint Research has noted an increasing operator demand for combined orchestration and entitlement deployments – a need which 1GLOBAL is meeting by offering a proprietary Entitlement Server natively bundled with its own eSIM orchestration platform. This means operators don't need to juggle multiple vendors to pair a smartwatch and a smartphone with the same phone number. The platform intuitively handles complex, context-aware activations across smartphones, wearables, tablets, and laptops, ensuring a compellingly smooth customer journey, regardless of the hardware brand.

Empowering MVNOs with True Multi-Tenancy 

As the digital ecosphere goes truly global, the modern connectivity market is incredibly diverse. It isn't just traditional operators shovelling data plans by the gigabyte anymore. Today, neobanks and digital-first brands are actively bundling connectivity into their core apps. 1GLOBAL’s platform is built on a highly secure, multi-tenant SaaS architecture that makes this not only possible but a cost-effective strategic asset. 

This flexibility allows a primary operator to effortlessly spin off segregated environments for their in-house sub-brands or external MVNO partners. Recent high-profile 1GLOBAL partnerships include major brands like Revolut and Lidl successfully embedding customized, white-label data plans directly into their own apps. Each partner gets their own bespoke offering catalogue, custom user journeys, and granular analytics, all powered by the comprehensive and unified 1GLOBAL engine. 

Looking Ahead

While it's a nice change of pace to take a moment and celebrate this recognition from Counterpoint Research, the 1GLOBAL team is already looking toward the future. The eSIM market isn't slowing down anytime soon, so neither is our platform's development roadmap. 

As the industry does everything it can to keep pace with the massive expansion of the IoT sector, 1GLOBAL is actively deepening its support for the new GSMA SGP.32 standard. By bringing the flexibility of consumer eSIM provisioning to autonomous IoT devices, we’re uniquely positioned to manage the billions of automated connections that are about to define the next stage of the digital world.   

1GLOBAL's vision has always been to remove the friction from mobile communications, enabling a fully digital, automated, and sustainable connectivity ecosystem.  

Being named a Leader in the 2026 Counterpoint CORE report is a much-appreciated confirmation that this vision is actively becoming a reality. 

Read the full Consumer eSIM Orchestration CORE Rankings 2026 report from Counterpoint Research here.

If you would like to discuss how 1GLOBAL’s eSIM orchestration expertise can support your operations, get in touch with an expert today.