@srlawren wrote:
@will13am cool. Alright well between our responses I think we've given the best possible easy scenarios.
@smay there is in fact another option though it's a bit more convoluted. If you absolutely *need* to be able to receive your text messages on your regular public mobile phone number, and have access to a spare Android phone, you can set up a forwarding of your inbound texts. Basically you leave the Android at home (or somewhere in Canada), plugged into a charger/wall outlet (so it doesn't run out of juice and shut down), and take your SIM out and put it in that spare phone before leaving for the airport/border. You can run a text forwarding app on the Android phone to take any inbound SMS messages and forward them to another phone number (such as a Fongo or Text Plus number) and/or email address, so that you can receive them when on WiFi in Cuba. You would still need to reply in some other way, such as texting back from Fongo/TextPlus which would show up with that phone number instead of your own Public Mobile number and may confuse your contacts, or reply to them via email or another chat app like WhatsApp, etc. This route is a bit more convoluted which is why I didn't suggest it at first, but if you absolutely need to be able to receive inbound texts (2-factor tokens, work texts, etc) that you can't transition to some other messaging app and have a spare Android phone to leave at home and don't mind leaving your phone and SIM card back in Canada, this is a possible option,
Have been lurking in this thread.....
Similar to what you just wrote above with an SMS forwarding app there's another alternative if you have an Android phone that you can leave at home and on with your PM SIM card installed - Join by joaoapps
Because I have terrible reception in my basement office I leave my cell upstairs and when I receive a text Join notifies me and lets me reply with my PC (there is a Win 10 companion app). However, it doesn't have to be a PC - you can use an Android tablet or phone too, and it even provides a web URL so you can use a browser.
I see no reason why it wouldn't work with your phone in Canada and a browser/app in Cuba - it doesn't need to be on the same network as it uses Google Drive to do its magic.
It is a one month trial then it's a one-time payment, and it's Android-only (the main app - there's companion apps too like the Win 10 one I mentioned as well as a Chrome extension). I've been doing this for over a year now and it's been working great.
Getting further off-topic, with all that said above I haven't needed it as much for SMS lately as I sent out a "if you want to reach me quicker don't use SMS/texting - use FB Messenger instead" so most people contact me that way. SMS needs to go away. Not a huge fan of FB Messenger myself but pretty much everyone has it installed so gotta go with the flow. In mainland Europe it's evidently WhatsApp that's in vogue and having used that too I hope it manages to gain traction over here.
(Join does other things too - like sharing files/links/app notifications between devices but the SMS thing is more relevant to this thread)
