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This was an awesome read. I finally decided to resuscitate my old ThinkPad x200s who had a modem card in it, put SIM card in the spot and do some testing. Sammy/fammi worked after some quarrel with ModemManager (not really it's fault, it was doing his job).

By the way this read has resuscitated an old fantasy of mine: adding an indirection layer to my mobile phone presence.

After this testing I am finally sure I can leave my SIM card at home and just use a regular internet connection to poll messages from home. My bigger fantasy is to be able to proxy calls too, so that I can finally leave this third-millennium-leash (my phone) at home.

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You could add this indirection layer with something like JMP instead.

With https://jmp.chat/ you don't need a SIM card at all - you just login to your phone number with an XMPP client (SMS/MMS) or SIP client (voice) and use it wherever you have an Internet connection. If you only want to use it at home, you can just use wifi and don't need to pay any cell carrier. But if you do want access to your number away from wifi, you can get a cheap data-only plan and use XMPP/SIP clients on your phone too. It's always up to you if you want to be tracked - you can turn off your phone('s modem) and use your number only over wifi whenever you like.

And it's easy to transfer your existing number into JMP - see https://jmp.chat/#existing for details.

No, that's not what I want. Stuff like JMP might not work in my country and would tie me to that particular provider.

I dream of a solution where I just put a SIM in and I am good to go (go as in "go away from the physical location of my sim card"). SMS will be forwarded to my email inbox and upon receiving a phone call it will be forwarded to the computer I am currently using via some protocol (SIP/webrtc?). Whether such computer is a mobile phone connected to the internet via a cellular modem or a laptop connected via some wifi that should not matter.

This should work with my current SIM card and with whatever other SIM card from any provider.

And BTW FYI: JMP does not work in my country. Please stop assuming everybody is from the US.

Just buy Google fi, and access/dial your phone calls/sms in hangouts.

> Just buy Google fi, and access/dial your phone calls/sms in hangouts.

Please, tie yourself to Google a bit more.

FTFY.

Don't even need google fi. I ported my number to google voice and I can send texts from my the web app.

In fact, I mostly just text from my computer instead of picking up my phone and texting from there.

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