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