Port your number to twilio and set up SMS and call forwarding to your first number.
Setting Up Call Forwarding – Twilio Support
Forwarding SMS messages to another phone number – Twilio Support
edit: I think it's 2 dollars a month for a mobile number
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Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy View PostI thought you were supposed to use them once then eat them afterwards?
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Originally posted by Spoiler View PostLooking at options to keep an old mobile phone number active. Currently it's in an old iPhone (which needs regular charging), on Three's PAYG (321) so I just top up maybe once a year and it's peanuts to keep. I use it for receiving texts (mainly OTP login codes). Calls are diverted to my main mobile number.
But ... I wouldn't mind ditching the second phone. However as I'm a tight arse I haven't come up with an easy solution that's cheap enough.
Nicest way would be to use an eSIM in my iPhone, but EE want �9 month for that.
Had a look at VOIP options, but it seems they don't handle receiving texts that well.
Maybe I just stick with the PAYG SIM and get a cheap handset that I don't have to charge so often.
Any other options I haven't considered ? thanks.
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Keep your iPhone on charge in a car. You can then use the 'find my iphone' facility as a cheap car tracker if it's stolen, or in your wife's car if you're possessive, or in a spare car if family members often borrow it and you want to keep tabs on it.
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Originally posted by WLB2018 View PostWould getting a phone with a dual sim slot work?
Have both in and then from time to time use it? Keeps both active and in one phone?
just a thought...
WLB
Think I'll just get a cheap phone (maybe android) which holds it charge well, and stick the existing PAYG sim into that.
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Would getting a phone with a dual sim slot work?
Have both in and then from time to time use it? Keeps both active and in one phone?
just a thought...
WLB
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Keep a really ancient old O2 PAYG phone in van as spare. Never use it except to call my own phone line every 6 months to ensure account stays active. I talk to myself anyway.
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Originally posted by Spoiler View PostLooking at options to keep an old mobile phone number active. Currently it's in an old iPhone (which needs regular charging), on Three's PAYG (321) so I just top up maybe once a year and it's peanuts to keep. I use it for receiving texts (mainly OTP login codes). Calls are diverted to my main mobile number.
But ... I wouldn't mind ditching the second phone. However as I'm a tight arse I haven't come up with an easy solution that's cheap enough.
Nicest way would be to use an eSIM in my iPhone, but EE want £9 month for that.
Had a look at VOIP options, but it seems they don't handle receiving texts that well.
Maybe I just stick with the PAYG SIM and get a cheap handset that I don't have to charge so often.
Any other options I haven't considered ? thanks.
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Using an old mobile number
Looking at options to keep an old mobile phone number active. Currently it's in an old iPhone (which needs regular charging), on Three's PAYG (321) so I just top up maybe once a year and it's peanuts to keep. I use it for receiving texts (mainly OTP login codes). Calls are diverted to my main mobile number.
But ... I wouldn't mind ditching the second phone. However as I'm a tight arse I haven't come up with an easy solution that's cheap enough.
Nicest way would be to use an eSIM in my iPhone, but EE want £9 month for that.
Had a look at VOIP options, but it seems they don't handle receiving texts that well.
Maybe I just stick with the PAYG SIM and get a cheap handset that I don't have to charge so often.
Any other options I haven't considered ? thanks.Tags: None
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