Best practice international GSM setup

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Originally Posted by ckh

At the end paying 17 cpm for a good global reach with one sim provider seems a good deal to me. But offcourse we'll also work with local prepaid sims.

Why pay so much when, as posted above, it costs 7 cpm to forward to +372 (and there are several other alternatives that call/forward for 8 to 11 cpm).

Especially since you are talking about forwarding your home VOIP, this is so easy to do if you have a half decent VOIP provider (= that allows forwarding to sip addresses - for more flexibility and cheap providers in the chain).

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Regarding Anveo and SMS: It's nice with onesimcard as you can forward the SMS for free via email. If you don't use onesimcard you will have to pay for the SMS forwarding.


If you need voice + SMS forwarding for world travel on a single US incoming number this is what I would do:


Voice: Anveo incoming -> you@sip.hotvoip.com -> +372 (= 7 cpm)

SMS: Anveo incoming -> 372xxxxx@sms.onesimcard.com (= free)


OR with Google Voice (= free incoming number):

Voice: Google Voice -> callcentric -> you@sip.hotvoip.com -> +372 (= 7 cpm)

Quality will not be degraded as there is no audio transcoding between callcentric and hotvoip (of course hotvoip quality is lower than a direct call, but for friends and family calls it is more than enough considering the price).

SMS: Google Voice -> 372xxxxx@sms.onesimcard.com (= free)