[lxgr]

It's neither convenient nor stable for anyone moving between countries either. When given the choice between a service that uses my phone number as my permanent user identifier and one that uses my email, I'll always go for the latter.

Unfortunately, big parts of the industry seem to be headed the other direction.

[ronnier]

I just transferred my phone number to google voice when I moved out of the country. When I moved it back I simply transfer it back to my carrier

[bravura]

There seem to be horror stories on reddit about Google Voice numbers being terminated for people out of the country too long.

Is there a stable inexpensive phone number service for folks that are outside the US a lot?

[0x38B]

I've been looking into Google Voice alternatives, and https://voip.ms/ looks good.

[kevincox]

I've been using voip.ms and it is fairly good. I wish the SMS support was a bit better but it does reliable deliver messages to email or SIP. (Large messages are not re-joined though and sending is based off of a code in the subject instead of an email address per-number which could be easily be added to an address book)

[cheriot]

I used the Republic Wireless wifi only service for $5/month. Still more expensive than it _needs_ to be, but well worth it.

[firecall]

International relocation is a very good point!

Something I hadnt considered. Thanks!