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Get a phone number like everybody. You are like 0.0000001% of the market. Nobody is going to twist their product to cater to you.
by unlinker 10y ago
Get a phone number like everybody. You are like 0.0000001% of the market. Nobody is going to twist their product to cater to you.
- pdkl95 10y ago> Get a phone number like everybody. Are you paying for it? I can be reached by telephone. What I don't have is a unique telephone number. This works perfectly fine for actual voice communication. If you think I can simply afford an extra monthly expense, you're wrong. > You are like 0.0000001% of the market. Made up statistics reveal your presuppositions. There are a lot of people that don't have a unique phone number. It's a minority position, but that's kind of my point: chat services do not inherently depend on traditional phone numbers, and requiring one is going to exclude more people than you probably realize.
- unlinker 10y agoIn any civilised country a prepaid phone number is almost free (if not free) so requiring a unique phone number will only exclude people I don't care about. And of course that statistic is made up. It was a joke.
- vertex-four 10y agoErr. A SIM card which comes with a phone number costs me £0 for the SIM and £5 minimum top-up. £10 for the phone, though half my friends seem to have old phones they could probably lend me. Are you in a country which doesn't have pay-and-go service?
- icebraining 10y agoApparently even pay-as-you-go plans in the US have a fixed monthly payment: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go
- ikeboy 10y agoYou can always use Freedompop or ringplus, where after a signup fee the plans are free.
- pdkl95 10y agoI'm in a country with a crazy healthcare system. Medical disability barely covers the absolute bare minimum; spending that 15 on a SIM (assuming I could find a phone somewhere) would require not paying of one of the drugs that are keeping me alive.