Workaround for countries that aren't supported by Twilio

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The situation is pretty standard: probably there are no CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) providers that can sell you phone numbers in nearly any country in the world. Lets take Twilio - it doesn't even support all countries in Europe for voice calls.

The technical question sounds like this:

  • What would be the best strategy to operate using Twilio in a country that is not supported by Twilio (you can't allocate a phone number)?

My thoughts are:

  • Buy a phone number from a CCaaS that supports that country and then port to Twilio (but I think you cna only do that in USA).
  • Other way would be to use a bought phone number as a forwarder (proxy) to a phone number in Twilio system?
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This is one of the use cases for Twilio Bring Your Own Carrier (BYOC). If the carrier in the unsupported country supports pointing the number to a SIP DOMAIN, you can have all calls to that number directed toward your unique Twilio SIP Domain.

Announcing Twilio’s Bring Your Own Carrier (BYOC) Trunking for Programmable Voice