BNESIM covers “200+ countries” with its eSIM, and its own page is explicit that “it is not possible to use the BNESIM eSIM to make calls and send or receive SMS”. Calling lives in a separate product, Virtual SIM by BNESIM. Numero eSIM puts data, calling minutes and a real number on one eSIM in 188 countries, from €16.00 for 20 GB over 30 days.
BNESIM is the third provider in this set, after Holafly and Yesim, to state plainly that its eSIM cannot call or text. It does sell an answer, a separate Virtual SIM with purchasable minutes, but that is a different product bought separately, and neither page publishes a price, a duration or a country list for the calling side. Numero eSIM sells one line that does all of it.
Can a BNESIM eSIM make calls or send texts?
No, and its page says so. Numero eSIM's full eSIM carries data, calling minutes and a real number that sends and receives, in 188 countries and 2 regions.
Where does BNESIM put the calling?
In a separate product: “Virtual SIM by BNESIM - where you can purchase minutes to make and receive international calls”, with no country list, price or duration published. Numero eSIM includes minutes on the full eSIM and publishes 17 local and 2 international calling plans with prices.
Can you buy a number on its own?
Through the Virtual SIM, with the countries not published. Numero eSIM sells numbers in 39 countries from $3.99 a month, each with a published price, plus toll-free lines in eight.
BNESIM sells travel eSIMs and, separately, a Virtual SIM for international calls. The table compares it across all four Numero eSIM product lines; BNESIM competes in two of them.
| What you compare | Numero eSIM | BNESIMnot published |
|---|---|---|
| Countries with a numberWhere you can get a local line of your own | 39 countries, listed with prices: 12 mobile-number countries, 32 additional countries and 8 toll-free countries (overlap between lists) | Via a separate “Virtual SIM by BNESIM” product; countries not published |
| Receive SMS and OTP codesWhether verification codes arrive | Country by country. SMS is received on the US, Canada and Nicaragua numbers; most additional countries do not receive it, which the country pages say | not on the eSIM: “not possible to use the BNESIM eSIM to make calls and send or receive SMS” |
| Send SMS from the numberWhether you can reply, not only receive | Outbound SMS from all 39 countries' numbers | same wording |
| WhatsApp verificationNarrower than receiving: not every number that receives SMS | Narrower than receiving. Listed on 11 of the 12 mobile-number countries (Nicaragua is the exception) and on the Denmark and Colombia toll-free lines | The eSIM does not receive SMS |
| Make and receive callsWhether it behaves like a real phone line | Only through the separate Virtual SIM product | |
| Toll-free numbersA 1-800 style line customers call for free | 8: Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Hungary, Serbia, South Africa | Not stated |
| Monthly priceWhat one number costs per month | Mobile $3.99 to $38.00 · More Countries from $4.00 · Toll-Free $7.00 to $78.00 · USA areas $3.49 | Not stated |
| What you compare | Numero eSIM | BNESIMnot published |
|---|---|---|
| DestinationsWhere mobile data works when you travel | 181 countries + 7 regions | “200+ countries” |
| Unlimited data, and where Which destinations offer an unlimited plan | 14 countries (USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia) plus the Europe region. 6 durations, 3 to 30 days. From €9 (Turkey, 3 days); Europe €9 to €59. 5G in 13 of the 14; Egypt is 2G/3G/4G | Mentions “local, regional, or unlimited plan” options without specifics |
| What you compare | Numero eSIM | BNESIMnot published |
|---|---|---|
| DestinationsOne line carrying data, minutes and a number | 188 countries + 2 regions | Not offered as one product; eSIM and Virtual SIM are separate |
| Entry priceCheapest way into the bundled product | €16.00 (20 GB, 30 days, number included) | Not applicable |
| What you compare | Numero eSIM | BNESIMnot published |
|---|---|---|
| Calling plansCheap minutes to landlines and mobiles abroad | 17 local and 2 international plans | “Virtual SIM by BNESIM - where you can purchase minutes to make and receive international calls” |
Last verified: September 2026
Many travel eSIMs rank for searches about phone numbers and then explain in their help text that the number is not there. BNESIM says it plainly and sells a separate Virtual SIM instead. You buy data in one product and minutes in another, and neither page publishes a price, a duration or a country list for the calling side.
Numero eSIM's full eSIM carries data, calling minutes and a real phone number on one line in 188 countries, from €16.00 for 20 GB over 30 days, and the standalone numbers, data plans and calling plans are priced on the page.
On data coverage BNESIM is wider, at 200+ countries against 181, and the Virtual SIM means it can put you on a call. What it does not do is bundle the two.
Roaming on an existing UK line: Euro Roam in 52 destinations, Global Roam in 84, pay as you go at £2 a day. Numero eSIM sells a local line where you land.
Travel eSIMs in “150+ countries” with calls and texts “in popular destinations”, which it does not name. Numero eSIM lists every country where its number works.
The same bundle as Numero eSIM's full eSIM: one prepaid eSIM with its own number for data, calls and SMS, across 112 countries. Numero eSIM sells it in 188.
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