Mom died, I got Covid, before any of this happened, I put in my 60 days notice to leave my Los Angeles apartment of ten years... in short, I had a LOT less time to begin to plan my digital nomadship which is about to begin than I had hoped. Do we have a forum for this? I don't even have time to google the websites dedicated to such an activity, they are littered with random information and advertisements for services pretending to be legitimate advice... but I'd like to avoid making any MAJOR mistakes. i.e. I am not "moving" to another state since I still work for a California company... BUT... I came to this forum for the following question:
For those of you that travel often and have to make calls - ideally reliable with little lag or choppiness or poor quality - what do you use?
My company is allowing me to do this, but we are small and certainly no one there is experienced in what I am doing... I will still need to make some phone calls and texts that aren't to another iPhone. What is the best plan of action without being crazy expensive? Traditionally when traveling for personal I just buy a local sim card when I arrive (once in the city, never at the airport).
Things I have:- A grandfathered family plan on Verizon Wireless with 10 GB shared amongst 5 lines, with me using 6 GB of data and I could probably use more
- I guess it offers Wifi calling, I just turned it on, but does it work when I am in Colombia, other countries?
- I guess there is also call forwarding...?
- Elevate - a VOIP program at work which has an app for cell phones or computers
- A Google voice number - I called a friend from it still using my iPhone 13 Pro, and it was NOT as good of quality as I'd have hoped
- What'sApp and/or other apps, but I can't have work call my regular cell number and answer with WhatsApp calling can I? Skype I presume the same...?
Looking for everyone's thoughts on what is best... get a basic T-Mobile account, transfer my number there, possibly then purchase their International plan because 2G speed is junk... keep the Verizon but on a "new" number...? Buy a local Sim card each country I visit for data but then?? The Verizon international plan is $85 a month (normally $100, not sure why it is discounted) but only comes with 250 minutes (and 1000 texts but most of my texts are iMessage so who cares)... I tried to export my call history into an excel log to see if 250 is enough from Verizon's website but it keeps not working.
Looking for ya'lls expertise, thanks!