Transparent pricing
The price is shown before you send — every time, no fine print. Every airtime or data gift shows the exact total, including Beamline's fee, before you confirm.
About Beamline
Staying close to home
shouldn't be complicated.
Beamline was built for one specific thing: making it simple, transparent, and fast for the Ethiopian diaspora in the US to send airtime and gift data to the people they love back home — without the hidden fees, confusing top-up sites, or generic global apps that treat Ethiopia as an afterthought.
Why we built this
The problem was never the distance. It was the friction.
Airtime top-up sites that make you guess whether the money actually arrived. Confusing fee structures that change at checkout. Apps built for a hundred countries that feel like they were built for none of them. We built Beamline to fix that for one community, properly, instead of half-fixing it for everyone.
Real delivery, not a black box
Airtime and data are delivered directly through Ethio Telecom's own network — not a third-party workaround. You see the delivery status in real time, the same way you'd track any other order.
Built for one community
Not a generic international app with Ethiopia bolted on. Every part of Beamline — the phone number formats, the carrier partnerships, the bundles — is built around actually sending to Ethiopia.
Where we're headed
Airtime and data today. More on the way.
Direct bank and mobile-money transfers to Ethiopia are in active development, at the same fair, transparent pricing standard as everything else in the app. Today, Beamline handles instant airtime & data delivery — with more on the way.