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Does it show eSIM providers that explicitly do not provide phone numbers? In particular, ones whose eSIM does not list any phone number that the OS can see (many "data-only" plans …

Basically everything is VoIP these days (VoLTE, etc.). Online services sometimes have secret lists of phone numbers they don't like, but "voipness" isn't a silver bullet for determ…

Why do you need a German phone number? Many countries let anyone have a phone number, with no proof of address or other identifying information. Just use one of those numbers inste…

I'd be interested to hear more if you don't mind posting about which service(s) offer(s) this. If you'd rather tell me privately, email denver@ossguy.com

I think they meant https://jmp.chat/

https://jmp.chat/ supports both MMS and group texting, so it would give you the full Google Voice feature set. I'm not aware of any other service like this that supports group text…

The backend is Bandwidth. Since JMP uses an actual carrier instead of a reseller like Twilio, it is easier to fix issues and get questions answered, as there is one less level of t…

Yeah, JMP supports picture messaging and short codes, so works for most SMS-based 2FA. Group texting support will be completed in the next month or two, which would give JMP featur…

Or to a service like https://jmp.chat/ that allows you to signup anonymously.

In practice it seems to work fine with the banks I've tried. There may be one or two that don't accept numbers whose type is listed as "voip", but they are in the minority. There i…

That's how https://jmp.chat/ works, and you can make your phone number as arbitrarily secure as you want with JMP. Any port-out requests are handled manually - you are contacted by…

We don't always provide our complete number list at https://jmp.chat/ - as an example, we usually have off-list numbers available in area codes like 416 and 212. Just message the J…

It looks like BMW is not in compliance. As far as I can tell, no one has done a complete corresponding source (CCS) check on that code like we did for Tesla: https://lists.sfconser…

Anyone can get a phone number anonymously from https://jmp.chat/ if they like. JMP lets you signup over Tor, and after the free trial you can pay in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrenci…

Agreed that such services should stop using phone numbers. In the meantime, you can get inexpensive numbers from https://jmp.chat/ - useful for 2FA as well.

If you want to use an SDR instead of a dedicated 2G/3G/LTE modem, you would still need 2G/3G/LTE baseband firmware to teach your SDR how to access the cell network (if/when you wan…

You could add this indirection layer with something like JMP instead. With https://jmp.chat/ you don't need a SIM card at all - you just login to your phone number with an XMPP cli…

https://jmp.chat/ supports MMS and concatenated SMS. JMP has full support for sending and receiving picture messages, and can receive group texts as well (which Twilio doesn't supp…

You could use https://jmp.chat/ instead - JMP does support short codes, and you can use is anywhere you have Internet access, regardless of whether you have a SIM or not.

You could use https://jmp.chat/ for your phone number - with JMP your phone number is accessible whenever you have Internet, regardless of which wifi/carrier you're using. That pro…

You can get a phone number from https://jmp.chat/ if you like. The signup process can be done entirely over Tor. If you don't use it beyond the trial, it's like the public payphone…

https://jmp.chat/ is a project I started, yes. There are about a dozen other people who work on it to varying extents (you can get a sense of this from the commit logs, some of whi…

As with all carriers that offer US (and Canadian) numbers, they are required by law to let you port your number away. So you can always bring your number elsewhere if they decide t…

For people that use Google Voice, that's often the hardest Google service to leave. You can get similar features with https://jmp.chat/ - it supports text and picture messaging (an…

https://gajim.org/ tends to be best for desktop (binaries exist for most desktop OSes). For macOS, you may want to try Adium or Psi. Or you can use https://movim.eu/ which, though …