bad communication

I recently started dating a guy, who seems to be exactly what I'm looking for.

The only issue is, when we aren't together I'm lucky if I get one text a week, never mind a phone call or FaceTime...

I've spoke to him about it, and explained how it makes me feel like there's someone else keeping him occupied, and how it's as though a text from him is basically A booty call as it's planning to see me and then ignoring me once we're done the next day.

I almost feel lonely when I'm always praying a buzz from my phone is him, only to be disappointed. 

He asked me to be official and I do trust that there's no one else, but at the same time it really upsets me that I'm getting zero attention from him. But I'm worried about coming across as a nag if I keep mentioning it (it's been discussed 3/4 times already!)

From his end, he's said that he hates messages as it's not real and he doesn't need to show his emotional "falsely" through his phone, he'd rather do it in person and say how he feels when I'm with him and can tell it's real, which he does. When I'm with him he's not sat on his phone either so it's not as though he's acting like he doesn't use it a lot, because from what I've seen he doesn't.

He has no other faults and I'd rather not hear oh just walk away because it's not that easy and he makes me incredibly happy otherwise, but I can't help but think how perfect it would be to get that much needed good morning and good night text!

I guess for me I'd like to believe that I'm worth putting in that extra effort for, seeing as it's not asking for a lot!!

How can I get him to WANT to speak to me more without it being a chore for him or forced because I've moaned so much??!!

Help please 💕💕