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GO plc: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

GO plc is a Maltese telecommunications and ICT company whose shares are traded on the Malta Stock Exchange. Its consumer offers include mobile calling and Wi-Fi calling, fibre and other fixed internet, and TV and streaming bundles. The website has separate business and wholesale sections. The services are delivered as connectivity and telephony subscriptions rather than as software that customers install.

The company is headquartered at Zejtun in Malta, an EU member state. Its majority shareholder is Tunisie Telecom, a Tunisian operator whose Malta-registered subsidiary acquired the controlling stake in 2016. Because the controlling shareholder is based outside the EU, ownership is relevant to jurisdiction and control for a European organisation. The website does not state where customer data is hosted, so the processing location and data-transfer terms should be confirmed with GO before use for sensitive traffic.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
MT (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
TNVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Telephony & VoIP
Type
Product
Website
go.com.mt ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to GO plc

The European alternatives to GO plc come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with GO plc

GO plc is headquartered in MT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in TN. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so GO plc scores best on data residency.

GO plc is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs GO plc together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to GO plc?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to GO plc include A1 Telekom Austria, Adversus and Auerswald. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to GO plc?

Our list of EU alternatives to GO plc is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is GO plc GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

GO plc is headquartered in MT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes GO plc an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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