- Are there any phone plans where you add to a ‘purse’ instead of make monthly payments?
- If yes, are any privacy focused?
Phreeli comes close with prepaid month-by-month plans and great privacy practices, but Ideally I’d like a plan where you buy ‘X’ minutes and ‘Y’ GB of data and just refill as needed. This would be for use in continental US and during international travel.
To piggy back on JMP.chat, pair it with Snikket (usually paying for jmp gets you a free Snikket acct) and you can use that with Cheogram app if you want calling capability.
It sounds convoluted, but jmp provides the number, Snikket is your “service” (XMPP), and Cheogram is the app/UI to use the service.
It’s my primary number now. It works well. If I’m not at home or work for WiFi, I just hotspot my work phone (unlimited data) and connect since it’s technically over WiFi only unless you have a carrier-which I do not) but with jmp I picked a citation number and have 0 spam calls in 6+months, so I’m a happy camper.
If anyone cares, I run Proton VPN with kill switch on any network as to obscure my connection, and it d call quality. I do have custom VPN settings to work more locally and custom DNS, but YMMV.
Good clarification on the JMP setup I missed covering. I can also verify that proton VPN with a local server works flawlessly for JMP calls.