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"You can register your phone on its home network near a tower and go WiFi-only forever after." This is how it works on paper. You may have had success with th
by rsync 4y ago
"You can register your phone on its home network near a tower and go WiFi-only forever after."
This is how it works on paper. You may have had success with this.
It does not work universally. It won't take long to find a bank / FAANG / service provider that refuses to accept anything but a bona fide mobile SIM talking to a base station.
- ridgered4 4y ago> It does not work universally. It won't take long to find a bank / FAANG / service provider that refuses to accept anything but a bona fide mobile SIM talking to a base station. How does a SMS sender know this? Is there some mechanism in SMS to only deliver if by certain criteria?
- copenseethe 4y ago
- orangepurple 4y agoYou can use a handset with its SIM card on WiFi without a tower ever again if you provision the SIM card on its home network once. Nobody is suggesting using anything but a handset.
- copenseethe 4y ago
- rsync 4y ago"Yes. There is a database they query to see if it’s tied to a handset, or just a virtual number." Or they do an API lookup and query the type in realtime. Elsewhere in this thread I posted the syntax for performing this lookup using the twilio API ...