Hi everyone. Sorry for the bad title and long post. I usually travel a lot around the world because of the nature of my work. Roaming is always very expensive to me and really just depends on where I am. My plan is to decouple my Signal/WhatsApp number from my cell calls numbers. i.e. I’d like to …

It is expensive and a lot of people had bad experiences with this service ( https://crypton.sh/ ). Reddit - The heart of the internet

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Sorry for the necropost, but I want to inform you about a huge change to the eSIM activation process in the latest update to GrapheneOS: make eSIM activation toggle available without sandboxed Google Play installed (eSIM management no longer requires sandboxed Google Play) What the toggle looked…

Just adding to what others have said, SMSPool provides non-VoIP phone numbers for verifying accounts. They offer both temporary numbers and rented numbers. The benefit of a service like this is that they use non-VoIP numbers so they aren’t blocked by many services. This is especially an issue with s…

What are their prices for the long-term SMS number? They want me to register to see the prices…

Not sure if your still interested, here’s mine BBE7AMUI

It’s $20 a month for a US phone number (non-VoIP)

Wow that’s crazy, would be cheaper to get some ancient burner phone for $5 and - if your country doesn’t require ID - a free SIM card from the corner shop.

That’s for a permanent number. Their main product is one time verification sms codes for 0.5$ or less. You can even use one number two times, allowing for example to use a phone number at a google account setup*, and then after for 2FA setup. (*Required when using a VPN)

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