No idea how long this will last for - phone support was super nice and helpful.Īfter loading credit, you can port now. Your credit card may not be accepted and you may need to contact phone support - their support told me that they had a lot of attempted fraud from Canadian credit cards recently, so they had to enable additional verifications at their card merchant for Canadian customers, and they need a phone call to verify you're a real person and not a bot. You'll get some free credit to get started (which is nice to play around with), but there's limitations in that you can't start porting numbers until you have a credit card on file and have bought some credit (even if that's only a few bucks worth bought).
you need a little patience to understand the pricing because there's so many different ways you can use the service, and each is billed differently. Pricing disclosure: SignalWire isn't built with us home users in mind, their price structure and configuration is aimed at high volume businesses, apps, etc. I have ZERO affiliation with SignalWire, I was just obsessive with finding the absolute least expensive way to keep a couple of old numbers active and usable without either carrying a second phone or paying costly monthly subscription fees and this is where I ended up. If you're a low or moderage user or simply looking for somewhere to park a number and hardly use it at all, then SignalWire will benefit your wallet the most.
That being said, where SignalWire isn't going to accel for you is if you're a heavy user because your pay-per-minute/message fees at SignalWire might end up making your pricepoint a bit higher than "unlimited" offerings from the previous two providers I mentioned. VoIP.ms and Fongo are probably some of the more popular RFD providers in this space, but depending on your usage, SignalWire can cut your costs even more than those two providers.
Had a bunch of users asking me to post this, so here it goes. I still use them as originally intended for parking, and have simply setup a scrip to forward SMS numbers to my cell so I'm not having to pay for the texable app for such infrequent use. EDIT 2023-02 - Since this post still gets some attention every now and then, just a quick note that Signalwire has increased prices since the time of writing this, and the textable app has also become paid.
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