Can’t make calls with silent link… it’s pretty much only good for data lines… Mint mobile is probably the cheapest on the market… I switched 2 lines from att that I was paying 145$ a month for… it’s pretty easy to see how much money we save now paying once a year…

On the privacy question: data-only eSIMs like silent.link (or ours, we run Silent eSIM, same idea) don't give you a phone number at all. No carrier calls or SMS means nothing there to snoop on, you call and text over Signal instead. That's the real win. The catch for a family of 4 is no number for ...