Traveling to Europe, best option to use phone abroad
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It would depend on the eSIM I guess. The data-only ones I use don't include a phone number, so any texting would have to be via a data connection of some sort. I'm sure you can get some with regular telephony too, but that didn't interest me: I'd have to tell people a different number to use for a week, if they sent me a text they'd pay international text prices, just didn't seem worth the effort.
However I very rarely use SMS these days anyway: with MMS being both inadequate and (on many UK tariffs) expensive, while SMS is quite limited, like a lot of people I've moves most of my messaging to third party internet-based services (WhatsApp, Signal etc). So to be honest I never even bothered checking how/whether I could make that work.
However I very rarely use SMS these days anyway: with MMS being both inadequate and (on many UK tariffs) expensive, while SMS is quite limited, like a lot of people I've moves most of my messaging to third party internet-based services (WhatsApp, Signal etc). So to be honest I never even bothered checking how/whether I could make that work.