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Calling and SMS via Data (Google Voice Alternative?) (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cabhan@discuss.tchncs.de to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Hi all! I'm looking for a service where I can port my phone number, and then make and receive phone calls and SMS, all over data, not cell service. My particular use case is that I live in Germany, but I still have a US phone number, and occasionally need to receive SMSes or phone calls on that number.

I am aware that Google Voice offers this service, but as you can probably guess given that I'm here, I am unwilling to use it :). I saw JMP here: https://lemmy.world/post/1033514, but TBH, I don't think that it will give me the experience that I'm looking for, given that it seems to translate everything back to generic Jabber.

Edit: Thank you all for the suggestions! I have decided to go with VoIP.ms: I tested it today, and am working on transferring my number to them now.

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[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com 2 points 1 year ago

I think Asterisk can do all the functions of Google Voice. I looked into self-hosting Asterisk, but I think it's beyond my skillset. I think there are services that host Asterisk for you.

[-] glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.org 3 points 1 year ago

Asterisk is a corporate switchboard product. It's very very old, although I presume it supports SIP nowadays. But there are other SIP services nowadays.

SIP is telephony over IP.

It is massive overkill to self-host, especially to self-host Asterisk. Search for "hosted SIP".

I went with Zadarma, but I was choosing mainly on price.

[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com 1 points 1 year ago

Do modern self-hostable sip services like zadarma offer similar features to google voice?

[-] glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.org 1 points 1 year ago

Who said you can self-host Zadarma?

[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com 1 points 1 year ago

Oops, good point. I assumed that criteria because I'm looking for a self-hosted solution - the OP isn't necessarily.

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