Skyway

How have you found the costs? I typically need about 2 hours of phone usage a day and around 30-50 sms for my business… seemed like it would get costly.

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      applesbana They give unlimited incoming and outgoing text and picture messages, and calling credit equivalent to 120 minutes of voice to the USA or Canada per calendar month. These are included in $4.99 USD / month. Extra is billed at $0.0087 per minute.

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        Skyway

        I use jmp.chat its a bit odd to get setup but I'm impressed with it .

        Only in a sense that you need to run XMPP client on your device which I normally wouldn't. But with more traditional VoIP setups you need to run some SIP client and these are pretty much all terrible, Play or no Play. I would rather run Conversations or Cheogram and do my calls over XMPP than deal with Linphone.

        Anything over cellular network should not be considered private .

        JMP promise not to log but your calls with them still pass "through many phone companies outside of your control or influence, including, but not limited to, the phone company of your recipient". In any case you decouple your location data from your calls which is what OP is looking to do. So instead of Bob calling Alice from Target parking lot it's "Bob calling Alice".

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            Yes I use the cheogram app.

            Skyway Anything over cellular network should not be considered private .

            This was a general statement nothing specific to jmp.chat
            VoIP over cellular data does add another layer but can still be tied back to you and location if someone should look into it, Most likely govt .

                You can use MUDI router to connect your phone to the internet using vpn or tor. every month/week you can change the data simcard whenever you want but before you change it, you need to reset the imei using BLUE MERLE then you can insert the new simcard.

                Here i use

                disposable DATASIMCARD(inserted on mudi) + VPN (OVPN) + GRAPHENEOS (PIXEL 6a)

                make calls for some clear-line i use (mobilevoip)/VoIp Raider
                receive calls only through simplexchat or signal (fork)

                on my laptop i use qubesos connected on ethernet port on mudi + sys-whonix + internet

                thats it.

                ps: blue merle only works on firmware version 3.215 but i have recently sent an email to nicholas farnham and hey plan to release further updates in the coming months so this may change, anyone can see the updates on theyr github repo once they have been finalized.

                  6 months later

                  mclsza Have you heard anything about blue merle updating?

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                      An XMPP app to look at is Monocles Chat. IMO it's contact management is much better than Cheogram or Snikket.

                      nodsocket this is what I do. Never had legacy calls or texts on my phone. And the WhatsApp number everyone contacts me on is different to the sim in my phone.

                        2 months later

                        mucr they have released a new version of mudi (v2) and blue merle works like a charm on newer firmware you can also setup the switch button on mudi to change imei whenever you want..