Cheapest way to call home from USA

ag19lfc

Travelling to USA for 3 weeks in June.
What’s the cheapest way to call the UK?
Buy a local SIM in America or find a UK provider with cheap/free roaming?
Cheapest UK provider I can find is 3 who want to charge £5 for each day I need to call home!

Sebi_895

If you're within wifi you can use WhatsApp to call. No need to get go and get ripped off from the phone companies!

BUFF

ag19lfc said:

Cheapest UK provider I can find is 3 who want to charge £5 for each day I need to call home!

The £5/day doesn't (yet) apply for 3 PAYG sims.

k_man

Three website states it won't charge until 23nd May.

https://www.three.co.uk/go-roam

OP is going in June.

Martin_the_Unjust

I think all Lebara plans include international minutes free calling, May be worth getting a sim from them.

eDicky

Martin_the_Unjust said:

I think all Lebara plans include international minutes free calling, May be worth getting a sim from them.

That's international calling from UK, not while roaming.

BUFF

k_man said:

Three website states it won't charge until 23nd May.

https://www.three.co.uk/go-roam

OP is going in June.

At the moment there are no announced plans for 3 to apply daily charges for PAYG roaming (although surely it must come).
"You won’t need to pay for this until 23 May 2022, as we’re waiving the charge until then. If you’re on Pay As You Go, or your Pay Monthly plan started before 1 October 2021, these charges won’t apply"

k_man

Thanks, I initially read that as 'PAYG or contract' started before 1 Oct.
But PAYG doesn't really have a start date, so makes more sense now.

chistery

What UK network are you on now?

Murmansk

As someone said, you can use WhatsApp - but only to call other WhatsApp users and you'd need wi-fi. If you want to call people other than those on WhatsApp you could get a Sipgate account and call any number you like in the UK at about 1p per minute to a landline and you'd need wi-fi of course again.

531063

Would "viber out" work