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Or software based like https://hushed.com/ or https://textplus.com/ (or similar). Source: over 2 years ago
Plus, there are other apps you can use like TextNow or textPlus that can assign you temporary US numbers if you want to make free calls to other US numbers + numbers from a few other countries too. I just don't like using those apps too much as the phone numbers are all recycled so it's not uncommon to receive spam calls or weird texts from people since a lot of sex workers like to use these recycled VoIP numbers... Source: about 3 years ago
If you can post this you can use https://voice.google.com/about . Call them and tell them , you need to wait to the next pay day to pay your phone bill and be able to accept text messages. Source: 10 months ago
Have you tried connecting via the Google Voice website on a PC to see if you're having the same issues? Source: about 1 year ago
Get yourself a Google voice phone number! Then you can give out that number and have it forward calls to your real number and preserve some anonymity. Source: about 1 year ago
You can be completely anonymous by using a google voice number to sign up: https://voice.google.com/about. Source: over 1 year ago
This one but idk if it works for OP's problem. Source: over 1 year ago
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