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How to obtain US number that can receive SMS's?

zafouharzafouhar Veteran
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Weird question I know but does anyone know how can someone obtain a US number that can receive SMS's if he is out of the US?

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  • BochiBochi Member
    edited July 2016

    I guess NomadSMS (https://twitter.com/nomadsms) was exactly what you are asking for.
    Sadly the guy sold it as far as I know and I just realized it seems discontinued...

    /EDIT/
    Just put your title into Google and it came up with some pretty interesting solutions! :)
    So in case anyone cares, those are disposable ones - like the disposable mail services:

    Well, but they claim to allow for private numbers also. Now sure about how much trust I would put in such services...the listed ones where the ones that "looked the most trustworthy". :P

  • vfusevfuse Member, Host Rep

    Twilio can do this. Costs $1 per number per month.

  • zafouharzafouhar Veteran

    @vfuse said:
    Twilio can do this. Costs $1 per number per month.

    Do you know if that number can also be used to verify a phone number in facebook, skype, PayPal etc etc?

  • TomTom Member

    FreedomPop?

  • vfusevfuse Member, Host Rep

    @zafouhar said:

    @vfuse said:
    Twilio can do this. Costs $1 per number per month.

    Do you know if that number can also be used to verify a phone number in facebook, skype, PayPal etc etc?

    I'm not really sure if that will work but I think you can see the phone numbers before you buy them so you can give it a try.

  • taro222taro222 Member

    anveo.com should work well

  • ricardoricardo Member
    edited July 2016

    zafouhar said: Do you know if that number can also be used to verify a phone number in facebook, skype, PayPal etc etc?

    Twilio can't, not for Facebook anyway. Last I spoke with them a couple of years ago:

    "SMS long codes and short codes work on two completely separate networks, and unfortunately we do not currently support SMS to/from short codes. If you'd like, I can certainly close the account on your behalf and refund your fee"

    I don't know much about the telecom system over there but it seems to be somewhat true.

  • century1stopcentury1stop Member

    try linespan

  • zafouharzafouhar Veteran

    @ricardo said:

    zafouhar said: Do you know if that number can also be used to verify a phone number in facebook, skype, PayPal etc etc?

    Twilio can't, not for Facebook anyway. Last I spoke with them a couple of years ago:

    "SMS long codes and short codes work on two completely separate networks, and unfortunately we do not currently support SMS to/from short codes. If you'd like, I can certainly close the account on your behalf and refund your fee"

    I don't know much about the telecom system over there but it seems to be somewhat true.

    Did you find any support SMS's from short codes?

  • ricardoricardo Member

    Are you looking to scale something up or do some one-off personal thing? I ask because it probably depends.

    IIRC I didn't. I was buiding up FB profiles but ended up using a mix between UK numbers that could receive SMS messages and transcribing voice calls using pocketsphinx. My goal was purely to phone verify accounts.

  • zafouharzafouhar Veteran

    @ricardo said:
    Are you looking to scale something up or do some one-off personal thing? I ask because it probably depends.

    IIRC I didn't. I was buiding up FB profiles but ended up using a mix between UK numbers that could receive SMS messages and transcribing voice calls using pocketsphinx. My goal was purely to phone verify accounts.

    I'm looking for something that works and I can keep using forever really

  • zafouharzafouhar Veteran

    @taro222 said:
    anveo.com should work well

    Do you know if they can receive SMS's from shortcodes?

  • DylanDylan Member
    edited July 2016

    Google Voice supports short codes. You do need a US number to set up an account, but you can just pay for a single month's service at another provider and use that number for activation. As soon as you get a GV number you can drop the other one.

    Thanked by 1ricardo
  • ricardoricardo Member

    Google Voice

    Yeah, I used to use them too but they changed their setup and they no longer suited me. They'd be a good choice.

  • StrikerrStrikerr Member

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.nextplus.smsfreetext.phonecalls&hl=en

  • greenwebpagegreenwebpage Member, Patron Provider

    i know twilio.com and vitelity.com that are very good

  • pardeeppardeep Member

    You can try magicjack where you receive sms

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