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!
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"
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.
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https://www.three.co.uk/go-roam
OP is going in June.
That's international calling from UK, not while roaming.
"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"
But PAYG doesn't really have a start date, so makes more sense now.