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Virtual Phone number with Receive SMS / Call Forwarding capabilities
EnginTopcuoglu
Member
in Requests
Hi Guys,
I need your helps and experience. I need an dedicated virtual phone numbers for Google, Bing and Yahoo for Receive SMS or Call Forwarding. Is any one use any providers before? And what's your recommendation to use another service:
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Certain VOIP providers support SMS, example:
https://zadarma.com/en/services/sms/
Personally like the following provider but I haven’t tried to send SMS:
https://voip.ms/
You need a VoIP service to get the number and credits for voice (call forwarding comes in a calls package usually) and SMS. You also need the software to be able to use it. The software can come on a VoIP telephone, downloadable for a PC or in the form of an app for a mobile phone. You can even set up your own VoIP telephone virtual exchange on a server is you so desire. There are many free software offerings out there.
There are many service providers and almost as many phone, download and app suppliers. I can speak highly of three VoIP providers, those being Sipgate, Gradwell and Andrews & Arnold. There are many others and I don't even know if any of those three offer services in you part of the world.
voip.ms SMS works well, except no spam filter/per-number blocking for incoming.
You can try onesimcard.
I had CallCentric for inbound. Numbers are in New York State, USA. They used to be free but now costs $1/month.
Now I use Piranha Mobile SIM card. Numbers are in Jersey, United Kingdom. It costs $23.50 once and then balance is deducted per outbound call / message. This is not a virtual service, but requires an LTE device to operate, with global roaming.
https://jmp.chat/
Google voice
You can also use Twilio which has nice APIs. I've used them and they worked well.
+1 for google voice, if its supported in your country!
Anveo is also great.
Since this is lowendtalk, surely you are looking for bottom of the barrel pricing. Google voice is free, but maybe it's not available for you and you have to use it or you lose the number. You can try looking for sip trunking, afaik google voice uses bandwidth.com and it is pretty cheap.