I finally got access to the beta program at Twilio, but they only offer numbers which can receive SMS (079) or voice (landline), but not both at the same time. In other countries, I found such numbers only in UK and US.
Nexmo.com offers Swiss numbers with the same limitations, but the SMS-enabled numbers have Sunrise prefixes (076).
Probably someone with telephony insight can explain why the virtual Swiss mobile numbers can only receive SMS and not voice?
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Stanislav Sinyagin ssinyagin@k-open.com wrote:
hi all,
I need to have a Swiss phone number which can receive SMS and voice calls and forward them to my PBX. I know I can build a gateway with a GSM modem, but I'd rather prefer a service from a provider.
Up to now I found several service providers like aspsms.com which can only receive SMS on their virtual numbers, but no voice calls.
Twilio.com promises such numbers, but Swiss numbers are only available for beta users (waiting for them to enable my beta program access).
Any other suggestions?
I would also be interested in an Italian number for similar purpose. Italy is not on the list at Twilio yet.
cheers,
-- Stanislav Sinyagin Senior Consultant, CCIE #5478 ssinyagin@k-open.com +41 79 407 0224