Are there Internet GSM gateways?

Question

Telephony

I need a mobile phone in another country. Are there any devices that can insert a SIM card and an Ethernet cable/Wi-Fi and it will forward all calls and SMS somewhere in SIP/Skype/mail/XMPP? Even just SMS. Moreover, which could work autonomously - i.e. I will agree with a person who will install it in his apartment and forget about him, and I will only send him money to replenish his mobile account. Perhaps there are services that provide a mobile phone number in the specified country?

Answer 1

Perhaps a bundle will suit you: cheap smartphone (androyd) + txtForward + VNC server . Cheap and you can also send sms back.

Answer 2

there is such a device - www.allproducts.com/communication/suncomm/08-channelbank.html
But I would prefer any FixGSM with RJ11 output or Eternet + Asterisk - the only BUT, it will not be sms.

Answer 3

SIP providers provide a regular ("landline") number for the connection. There were even some free services with US numbers.

Answer 4

Let me explain, in order to use some of the Japanese Internet services I need, they require a Japanese mobile number, which will receive SMS with confirmation codes. And since I am at the opposite point of the globe, this is a little problematic.

Answer 5

Set up dumb forwarding through a mobile operator and keep the SIM card in the switched on phone
for foreign SIM cards, you can look at goodline.ru

Answer 6

I was interested in a similar question six months ago
Here are 2 ways to solve the issue
1 Hard (purchase a GSM VOIP gateway, for example, a GOIP device, the price with delivery to Russia is about $ 170)
2. Software, a program was created specifically for our request - Oktell SIP-GSM Gateway
Web site www.ipunion .ru/ (the program is being developed, there is a forum).
Implementation
I bought myself an English SIM card on ebay for $5 for roaming. Why English, because all goodlines and simtravels have an Estonian number, and calls from betamax to them are much more expensive.
Scheme
Through SIP in the program, you implement the redirection of your Russian SIM card via VOIP to a roaming SIM card (I use the betamax operator
www.webcalldirect.com/ a call to an English mobile phone number costs 0.065 euros or 2 rubles 60 kopecks. For comparison, an incoming MTS costs 58 rubles.

Answer 7

A HARDWARE single-port solution Planet VIP-281 and its “Russian counterparts”… It works for me exactly according to the scheme I wanted above. Call to mobile moves to sip: [email protected]

Answer 8

Total. The task can be solved in several ways, but it is important to know the country whose number you need to get.
In addition, adding the functionality of sending SMS to the Internet complicates the task a little.
Option 1.
Any GSM gateway with the ability to forward GSM to VoIP (if I'm not mistaken, there are several models that can also forward SMS messages, but I won't say right off the bat).
Option 2.
The same as option 1, but instead of a hardware gateway, we implement a gateway based on a 3G Huawei modem.
Additionally, you can try to add a stray forwarding sms yourself, for example, to soap, in principle, this is quite real.
Option 3.
Buying a ready-made mobile number already inserted into the gateway and receiving calls to it in VoIP. SMS, as a rule, such offices do not transmit.
A few more options were once discussed here users.livejournal.com/_adept_/113209.html?thread=2983225#t2983225
Now about how to deal with SMS.
Some operators have solutions that allow you to receive incoming SMS to e-mail, or view them using the WEB interface (I myself once launched a similar solution for operators :)). In Russia, this is in a megaphone, in Ukraine in MTS, partly in Kyivstar (there is no functionality you need there yet), and, if I'm not mistaken, it was once in life.

Answer 9

"Almost" standalone solution, DLink DIR-300/DIR-320 and huawei modem E1550. Inside DD-WRT + asterisk

Answer 10

It turns out you can buy an Arduino, a GSM shield for it and assemble such a thing yourself

Answer 11

Tried everything above. Stopped at this . I will note the necessary features:

• there is a free plan
  
• app for smartphone
  
• api
  
• suitable tech. support