I currently carry a dual-sim phone to have two numbers, private and work each. I am not entirely happy with this setup however:

  • Dual sim phones aren’t common and cost more when I have to upgrade.
  • I need call recording for business, but android phones aren’t very clear when it comes to call recording support. I had to try and return several new devices.
  • I would love to have additional temporary phone numbers for privacy (e.g. retails).

And here’s my situation:

  • Google Voice is not available in my country. Plus, it’s Google.
  • Prepaid SIM cards are cheap and easy to acquire where I live.
  • I have a bunch of old spare android phones.

I was thinking, could I leave the SIM cards for private and work at home, inserted to phones/devices that are managed by a call-forwarding server, which transparently forward the calls to a third device I am actually carrying?

Self hosted Google Voice is what I would love to have.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 months ago

    This is the route I’d go. I use FreePBX for all this, but my voip provider could do most of the work (voip.ms). There are decent softphone apps (Zoiper, Linphone, etc.) to initiate calls from and porting a number to the voip provider isn’t too difficult.

    • @wildbus8979
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      211 months ago

      VoIP.ms is clearly the connaisseur’s choice in this thread 👌