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@abucci Are there any (relatively easy (not having to implement it yourself)) alternatives to jmp.chat?
If there aren't, could you please mention other alternative that there are? (even if you have to do some manual setup with some providers)
(I guess this would be a possible oportunity to start a company that
offered jmp.chat's functionality for other countries, (I guess having
different companies that are managed by different people for the service
of different countries (the same as jmp.chat more or less), would
encourgeage competition, but not sure))
Asking because I live in a different country, so even if I did register
to jmp.chat, the system would probably not let me send messages and or
calls to it, as it'd be a crazy expensive call or message, right?
And even if I could, calling that number would be expensive for family
and/or friends, and/or other people.
Though, being fair with myself, I think they wanted to expand to more regions, but I guess that if I tried to setup a company to offer something like jmp.chat, I'd have to track my users, (at least know their identificative documents), as that's written into law here in the EU.
@jmjl I'm sorry that I'm not super knowledgeable about alternatives to jmp.chat but I'll tell you what I know.
You're probably right about jmp.chat not working for you, at least as it is now. You can only get US and Canadian phone numbers through it last time I checked, so if you're not in either of those countries you'd be making international calls all the time and people who wanted to call you would be making international calls too.
I've seen people talk about using SIP as an intermediary: you can bridge SIP-to-XMPP, and bridge SIP-to-PSTN (PSTN = "packet switched telephone network", meaning normal telephone). You can skip the SIP-to-XMPP side if you're comfortable using a SIP client. I don't know very much about SIP or PSTN so I am not sure what to recommend, but perhaps this helps your search queries.
There are a fair number of services like TextNow that let you sign up for a real telephone number that you can then use via their app (I wouldn't use TextNow--they had tons of spyware in their app). I don't know if that kind of service works for you but if it does perhaps you'd be able to find one of them that isn't horrible. This page (https://alternativeto.net/software/jmp-chat/) has a bunch of alternatives; I can't vouch for any of them but maybe it's a starting point if you want to go this route.
Good luck!=