Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone

Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by rahimnathwani on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:44PM (#36914928)

If the owner of the number is a customer of a different telco (not Twilio), by what mechanism can Twilio determine whether the it's a physical (sim/esim/landline) or virtual number?

Sure, some operators operate only physical or only virtual, but others (like Google) operate both.

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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by stqism on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:09PM (#36926243)

This isn’t something casually identified with flashy software solutions or APIs, it’s more of a relationships with carriers and other companies in the telco space sorta thing. It gets even more fun when you start looking in to MO and MT on the SMPP side of things.

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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by oriettaxx on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:46PM (#36937672)

by the way, if you only need a validation of a number, no need for Twilio: this is a great lib https://github.com/giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php

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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by oriettaxx on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:42PM (#36937653)

https://www.twilio.com/docs/lookup/v2-api/

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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by rahimnathwani on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:49PM (#36937700)

This explains how a customer of Twilio can request the info from Twilio.

I asked how Twilio obtains the information.

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Re:Cophone – Your Virtual Smartphone by oriettaxx on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:12PM (#36937822)

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050891214-Ge...

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