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by thrwwyusr543 4532 days ago
To expand on this, does anyone know of a reliable service provider (accepting bitcoins is a bonus) for SIP Trunking[0]? Or any VoIP workflow that can perform calls to PSTN[1] (the regular landline/mobile telephone network). Or even any VoIP provider that offers a basic answering service, where the voice mail box can be checked over the internet a la google voice/skype voicemail?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIP_Trunking

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pstn

Edit: A quick search gave me this[2] by Plivo. Does any one know of any other options?

[2] http://plivo.com/blog/sip-trunking-to-replace-my-landline-ph...

2 comments

Don’t have any recommendations here, just thought I’d mention that for the stated purpose—​preventing the tracking of the cellphone location (i.e. where you go)—​running your own VoIP to PSTN/​ISDN/​GSM bridge at home would be sufficient.

Completely anonymous hosted PSTN bridge would be very open to abuse, so I imagine not many of them are/will remain accessible via Tor. But for completely secure and/or anonymous communication you don’t need or want PSTN, all you need is (encrypted) VoIP–VoIP that you control, and can optionally expose via Tor (as a hidden service).

Bonus points: GSM bridge at home raises less flags. You could even “take it for a walk” from time to time to make it appear even less suspicious.

build your own ostel or asterisk server, I think asterisk does voicemail.