What are some cheap ways to call from Thailand to the USA without using popular apps?

Look into VOIP services like magic jack

Viber

If you have an email for the person you want to talk to you could use Teams or Zoom - if it’s a cold call that will not work

Skype ends in may

Google voice. With vpn works like a charm.

I use second line app. It works good for 5 dollars a month. Just download from Google store and you pick your number. I use it to call navy federal bank and social security office and VA hospital. No issues

Use a friend's mobile when they're sleeping

Fyi...Microsoft announced that the 21-year-old calling and messaging service will shut down May 5. The software company is encouraging Skype users to migrate to its free Teams app.

/28/microsoft-is-retiring-skype-in-may-encouraging-people-to-adopt-teams.html

Download text now. Register it with a USA number and call direct through it. It will give you a number people can call. Use for banks etc all the time..

Prefix 003 + inter code + number with AIS

Try SKYPE..

I have T- Moble. It is in both countries, It is a blessing

Yola app search online

Skype

เราใช้ WhatsApp free

Consider asking people to wear a black armband to show our mourning for the passing of America as a great moral influence in the world

Whatsapp

Talku

Actually it is terminating in may of twenty twenty five and being replaced by what they're calling microsoft teams. It's a little confusing to decide which plan you want.But I just started looking into it, but they do.Have an international calling plan which will allow you landline and mobile phone access.

You can.

Use Skype and take the u.S a add on it's like three fifty a month that will allow you to call landlines. however skype is going to be no longer available as of may twenty twenty five

Get Mint mobile with an esim and use wifi calling...

WhatsApp , that’s what I use when I was in Thailand. I’m from Canada

Yolla

Skype will terminate all services in May 2025. Any alternate option to call landline ( in Germany) from TH at low cost? Thx for advice;

My Tello app. Cheap

Magic jack 40 dollars a year unlimited usa calls .Can to house pbone or cell phone.

Wifi calls are free

Woip Stunt app...IP telefoni working from the jungle you don't need WiFi .....

I use Google Voice.

I set it up while I was here (in Thailand). I had to use a friend's cell phone number and I already had a google voice number. I think, it maybe one google voice number per cell phone number, so I wouldn't be able to use my friend's number if she was using google voice already.

Google voice works for most things, every once in awhile it won't work for verification stuff.

I maintain a US cell phone line and use WiFi calling to do banking.

Grammarly. This app can help you achieve that.

The Yolla app. Can add credit when needed and call any phone anywhere.

Yola, Skype,

When you get through to them... Don't tell them you received a dose on your travels 👌

003+1 *** *** *****

Google Voice

I have a sype account call anywhere in USA $25 per year

Just pay using the cel carriers option. Don't be cheap Charlie . It is not expensive

I have Ooma which is a VOIP (voice over internet service) for my home phone in the US. It is very cheap, only a few dollars a month. (I pay an extra $5/month for up to 500 free minutes to almost any phone in the world.)

Then I load the Ooma app to my cell phone and adjust the settings so that any call to my home phone also rings my cell, just as long as my cell has internet connection. In Thailand, I buy a cheap Thai SIM card which gives me internet connection, so I can then both receive calls from the US and MAKE calls TO the US for free from my cell phone in Thailand.

Finally, I forward my US cell number to my US home phone (Ooma) number, so any calls to either my US home or my US cell number ring through to my cell in Thailand and I can use my cell with a Thai SIM card to call almost any number in the world for free.

Skype

Skpye. You can just log on, pay a few dollars into an account & make overseas calls for pennies. I use it to call US banks, government offices, etc.

Google Voice... it's free

Skype user, pls check below link. Looks like skype is shutting down and switching over to MS team.

/28/tech/skype-microsoft-shutdown/index.html

Try txtnow, and other Internet phone line service,

Text now, it's a free service, call back to State for free, but it need Internet.

I use wifi to call

I use Yolla, it's 1 cent a minute to the States.

Good Luck in getting a government office with all the layoffs.

we use Skype buy a 1 month subscription for $2

Skype

I use 2ndLine . Gives you a USA phone number at any area code you want.

Google voice, wattspp, Skype. I use Wattsapp to talk with family and Google Voice to call anyone if need be. It's free

Phone app Telz. Real easy and cheap

I use my ais service.

Rebtel

Get a thai SIM card for your USA cell phone with phone plan minutes

Viber has a top up as you go call out service. I use it to the U.S. frequently.

I call to the 1800 numbers and government offices in america for free using skype at least once a week (no subscription required)

Enable wifi calling.

Yes a Thai sim card

@Chang *****

Skype

I use my USA based phone on my home or office WiFi calling. Pretty well encrypted. Very inexpensive. Of course, no extra charge for phone, text, data. Wow.

I use a free VPN (Proton VPN) that is connected to a number in the US, sometimes you have to keep changing servers to get a US server, then I use Google voice and it's free. Both items are free

I use my tello very cheap and very good use it to ring banks and govt departments. My bills ha dropped from 700 baht to 29 baht. Pretty good l reckon

Google voice

Google voice

Agree with many above, Skype gets through to banks, businesses easily. Very inexpensive

Keep calling app you just need wifi and pay for your minutes....

Magic Jack

I use Skype and the best part is 800 numbers are free which is great when calling government or bank numbers and being put on the dreaded hold with elevator music in the background 😝

Skype. Cost is pennies

Skype

Google voice

Yolla app

AIS

Mytello app

If you're with true call 006 before your country code it's cheaper that's what I do when I call a business

Use your eSIM if you got one -

Mytello

Get a phone with wi-fi calling.

AIS is 5 baht a minute

Skype

You travel to another country an can't afford a phone to usa. Cheap Charlie

Get international phone from at&t

Go home. We don’t want racism here. That will solve your problems

Send J.D an SMS his mouth is big enough!

I use Fanytel. You can get a US (or other country) virtual number for only $10/year. Incoming texts and calls are free, outgoing only a small fee. They are on the play store.

Talk 360

Wi-Fi calling is easy on any mobile.

I use a Skype subscription (have done for many years). For USD $20 per month, I can call almost any phone (both landlines and mobile) on the planet. As an expat who also travels often, this has been an excellent investment.

PS - Bloody hell, you jinxed me! I just received an e-mail from Microsoft, to advise me that Skype is retiring in April.

With a AIS sim I can top up 200 thb and then dial 003 and then US international number costs 3 thb a minute I think

Skype but you wont have a phone number. 800 numbers are free

Swytch £6 a month

Set up a SKYPE acc

I use Skype ..

Skype.

Google voice

Skype