Cheapest way to make phone calls from abroad?

Borrowed phone cards..
Enjoy your trip!

You can use both on your computer.

We’ve always used nobelcom.com to call the US from abroad. They e-mail you the codes that you would normally get from a physical calling card, and you use the codes just like a card. My daughter was in France for 3 months, and never did use up all the minutes on a $50 “card”. She did buy a phone and a French SIM to use for local calls, which turned out to be a helpful thing to have. She’s used the same phone in other countries, purchasing the SIM on arrival.

Thanks. Yes I will def be on the lookout for a local SIM card once I get there. And thank you, I will look into nobelcom.

What Ive got running right now is Fring which requires an SIP to make calls. I picked Sipgate for no real reason and am now looking for cheaper rates. I believe this approach will allow me to make international calls for much cheaper than the roaming rate.

@papaya Can you use GV “out of the box” to make calls back to the US from abroad? I thought you had to go through this SIP thing to get that to work?

There are booths that you can go to in airports which sell or rent cheap phones, like Tracfones, that you can use while you are abroad.