Efani is a privately held, bootstrapped US mobile carrier (MVNO) founded in 2019 by CEO Haseeb Awan after he was personally SIM-swapped four times; it sells a premium, no-contract cell plan marketed as SIM-swap-proof, backed by an 11-layer manual-approval process, a 14-day cooling-off period on port-out/SIM-swap requests, and up to $5 million in Lloyd's of London insurance. Its short privacy policy states it collects only what it needs, retains data only as long as necessary, and does not share personally identifying information with third parties except when legally required. Efani rides two unnamed top-tier US mobile networks (explicitly excluding T-Mobile) rather than owning its own network, and account activation requires a live identity-verification call before service starts. No independent third-party security audit, breach, or regulator action specific to Efani was found in this research; its own marketing claims a 100% no-SIM-swap track record, which is a self-reported figure rather than an audited one.
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Efani's How It Works page states that activating an Efani Secure Line requires scheduling a call with the company's activation team to verify the customer's identity before service is turned on, a live identity-verification step beyond typical app or carrier onboarding.
Efani's Privacy Policy states the company only asks for personal information when it is truly needed to provide a service, collects it by fair and lawful means with the user's knowledge and consent, and discloses why it is collecting it and how it will be used.
Efani's Company page names Haseeb Awan as CEO and states he bootstrapped Efani in 2019 using his own funds after being SIM-swapped four times as co-founder of a Bitcoin ATM network; the page discloses no separate legal entity name, cap table, investor list, or business-registry filing beyond the named founder and a San Francisco mailing address.
Efani's Privacy Policy states the company does not share personally identifying information publicly or with third parties, except when required to by law.
Efani's FAQ discloses that it is a mobile virtual network operator: customers choose from two top US mobile networks for actual coverage, explicitly excluding T-Mobile, meaning the underlying carrier partner still originates and routes the call, SMS and location traffic that Efani's own no-share policy does not itself control.
Efani's How It Works page claims a 100% success rate to date, stating no Efani client has been SIM-swapped on its secure plan; this is a self-reported marketing figure with no named independent auditor, and no third-party-verified breach, regulator action, or documented SIM-swap failure specific to Efani was found elsewhere in this research.
Efani's How It Works page states that all SIM-swap requests are blocked by default and can only proceed through a secure, multi-person approval process, a specific technical control against the account-takeover technique the service is built to prevent.
Efani's FAQ describes the service as protecting against SS7 interception, eavesdropping, DDoS attacks and location tracking, and states that it encrypts customer personal information, though no named encryption standard, third-party penetration test, or independent security scan is cited on the page to substantiate the claim.