Originally Posted by
Nayef
I love the idea of travel eSIMs but since almost none of them have phone call capability how does one make a local call abroad for free? Especially if a traveler needs to call airline customer service or even calls hotels or restaurants or just need to make local calls for any other reason.
If you're from the US, I'd say Google Voice. You can use it over data while abroad. It will give you calls and texts to the US for free (airline customer service etc). Calls to other countries (hotels, restaurants, other things local to where you're traveling) are pretty competitive but not free. No international texting though, you'll need Whatsapp or whatever is big in that country.
But there are other solutions too