Phone Masking Services

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I found out today that Firefox now offers a phone masking service as part of their Firefox relay package (for US and Canada).

Are there any other companies that offer the service? What do people think of the Firefox offering? $3.99/month if paid annually, seems like a fairly reasonable price (especially since I cannot find any other service to compare it too). You get 50 minutes of forwarded call time and 75 texts per month.

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You’d probably compare it to MySudo, which is half the price, or JMP.chat which is $1 more.

If you went the DIY approach the market price for a phone number is around $0.85-$1.15/month plus usage fees.

Overall Mozilla seems like a reasonable offering.

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Isn’t the distinction that those are VoIP offerings a big difference? A lot of services, that might be nice to have a phone number mask don’t accept VoIP numbers. I would of thought SMS Pool might be the better comparison.

This makes me feel less crazy about being interested. Felt like I got burned by their Monitor service so now I hesitate when they release a new offering.

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I would assume Mozilla’s is also a VoIP offering(?)

I would also assume SMS Pool is VoIP and their “non-VoIP” numbers are just numbers they’ve ported in and just have an old label in databases. I doubt they have a bank of physical cell phones or something behind the scenes. I know you can get around Google Voice being blocked by sites by porting in a landline number to Google Voice, so I’m guessing SMS Pool uses a similar tactic.

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I think I probably just fell for the marketing. Figured I would give the service a shot, since its 30 day money back guarantee and it looks like the masking number I got is just a Twilio number at least according to numverify

I am assuming that means people will run into the same issues that just using a VoIP service has.