[guardian-dev] idea for private SMS on wifi-only devices

[Griffin Boyce]

On 09/20/2013 11:43 AM, Hans of Guardian wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:07 AM, The Doctor wrote:
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>> On 09/19/2013 12:17 PM, Daniel McCarney wrote:
>>> I'm not sure Google Voice accounts are universally available. Last
>>> I checked you had to be an American customer. It certainly wasn't
>>> available in Canada :'(
>> They also don't seem to forward calls to non-USian phone numbers.  I
>> tried last year when I was in Spain (running on an international SIM
>> card) and got an error message to the effect of "We don't forward US
>> numbers to foreign numbers."
> Yeah, it is true that you cannot send messages to most/many non-US numbers, but you can receive from them.  My guess is that telecoms don't want to play with Google because it undermines the ridiculous amount of money that they make on text messages.
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> .hc

  Have you looked into Twilio? Some assembly required,[1] and it doesn't
have numbers available in every country, but you can set up forwarding
to non-US numbers. They charge you for both inbound to your forwarding
number and the outbound long-distance call rate for that country.[2]

  It's usually only a few cents per minute.  Not great, but good if you
find yourself cycling through an endless number of burner phones while
travelling, it's worth looking into.

~Griffin

[1] https://www.twilio.com/help/faq/voice/how-can-i-set-up-call-forwarding
[2]
https://www.twilio.com/help/faq/voice/how-much-am-i-charged-for-call-forwarding

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