What should be done to add a new country to twilio numbers? Colombia is not available although many other Latin American countries are...
Twilio developer evangelist here.
From the bottom of our page which lists which countries in which Twilio has numbers:
Twilio is in the process of providing phone numbers in more countries as quickly as we can. Each country has different regulations regarding the purchase and sale of telephone numbers, so we are not able to provide a timeline on when numbers in a specific country will be available.
I will note that while you don't get the local number you are still able to send messages to and receive messages from Colombian numbers using Twilio numbers from other countries. Perhaps this could help you?
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I've bought a UK number. I'm trying to send SMS myself (a USA based number). It doesn't work. I've checked off all the countries in "Messaging Geographic Permissions". Still it doesn't work. The USA based number I've bought DOES work. All the documentation on Twilio's website alludes to international SMS working for UK based numbers.
Is it possible to use Twilio to call country specific emergency numbers. I already have the specific numbers (for each country) in my DB. My question is if I can use the sip-trunking emergency calling for dialing emergency numbers in other countries.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You can place emergency number calls in some situations but there are limitations. you can read more about it here.
In summary, though, to enable emergency calling on a Twilio number you need to do the following:
Configure, validate and associate an address with your Twilio number (from the Numbers tab of your Trunk)
Enable Emergency Calling on that number
Emergency calls (911) will only be routed when Twilio Numbers enabled for Emergency Calling are used as the Caller-ID (SIP From: header). Emergency calls from any other number will be rejected.
I was wondering if its possible to allow people to text to a twilio number without charging them sms charges by their carrier? So, for each text message that is sent to a twilio phone number, I will cover the cost. Basically, free or charge text messaging for users to a specific twilio number.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
We support incoming SMS messages on toll free numbers in certain countries, so yes!
I recommend opening up the advanced search in the phone number console and checking the boxes for toll free and SMS.
All my users are in the United States. When someone signs up on my website they enter their cell phone number. Can I use the user's own cell phone number to send a SMS text message via twilio?
I was reading the twilio documentation about subaccounts and I couldn't determine if this was possible or not. They make it sound like you can only send texts using a narrow range of phone numbers.
Twilio evangelist here.
Today, you can only send text messages from phone numbers you've provisioned from Twilio. We've got a FAQ article that describes why.
You can make phone calls from either a Twilio provisioned phone number, or a verified phone number.
Hope that helps.
So I'm trying to figure out how companies are able to provide free phone numbers to their users like Skype and Google Voice? I tried doing some research on who maintains a list of available phone numbers like ICANN and found NANPA (North American Numbering Plan Administration). It doesn't look like you can purchase a block of phone numbers from them.
So if I wanted to purchase bulk telephone numbers and provide a service where I could give my users a free number, do I just call AT&T and purchase from them?
Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
I'm trying to figure out how I can provide a phone number to my users so I can deliver text messages to them (outside of a cell phone number). Like how users are assigned a phone number from eFax and anyone can send them a fax.
My assumption is that eFax purchased a block of phone numbers from a provider which then assigns to users to receive fax messages. If you own the number, the routing should be fairly simple.
So maybe the direction is to provision the number in real-time as users sign up and pay that fee (whatever it may be).
I'll check out your link to bandwidth.
Check out http://www.bandwidth.com or http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Bandwidth.com.
Bandwidth.com has an API for real-time provisioning. I'm not sure about the cost though.
Essentially, you don't even have to purchase them. You just need to be a (registered) telephone company. That's a bigger burden than you probably expected, but I expect Skype and Google did this. For smaller companies, it may be wise to outsource this, but you'd want to find a partner that isn't competing with you. AT&T wouldn't sound like the best partner if you're going to sell VOIP to consumers.