• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    For Americans, yes… but everywhere else in the world phone numbers are cheap as dirt. When I was overseas in Spain my local number cost me 3 euros/month

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      6 months ago

      There’s a service that gives you a dedicated Ukrainian number to receive texts at an email address for $15/year.

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          6 months ago

          There was a service that only charged if the phone was used that day. A family member of mine would turn on their phone once a month, check messages, make a few calls, and then turn the phone off until the next month. I think they were paying about $2 a month.

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          6 months ago

          That exact price with a new phone? No.

          Like $10 a month or less by reusing phone hardware with new Sim cards to use occasionally for sms verifications? Yes.

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              6 months ago

              Not exactly an endorsement. I had unlimited calls, texts and 20GB of 4G data for less than 10 dollars for a few years until the recent price hike every company decided they wanted a slice of. Even then, it came out at about 11 bucks. North American phone packages are a joke with all the oligopoly BS going on.