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Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi?

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In article <nrhh8l$57i$4@gioia.aioe.org>, Horace Algier
<horatio@horatio.net> wrote:

> 
> >> My fault for not being clear that a legitimate phone number was the goal.
> > 
> > voip provides a legitimate phone number.
> 
> Either you don't understand the question, or you are just being cryptic for
> no good reason.

or that you're *totally* clueless.

> I've seen this behavior from you so many times, that I've learned the
> following:
> 
> 5% of the time, you actually know what you're talking about.
> 5% of the time, you don't actually *understand* the question.
> 90% of the time you're just being duplicitous (for whatever pleasure it
> gives you).

what i've seen from you is that you have no fucking clue about pretty
much everything and instead of learning something new, you just go off
on a rant.

> The point is that a real phone number is required for this to work.
> 
> I have Ooma and many of my friends and relatives have Vonage, but we're not
> talking about physical phones - so - you must understand that physical VOIP
> is not the question.

i never said it was the question.

i said voip is the *answer*.

> We're talking about using a GSM moboile phone WITHOUT the SIM card yet
> still getting, for free, a real phone number that calls other phone numbers
> and that receives calls from other phone numbers, for free.

no shit.

> Of course on WiFi, that GSM device (with or without a SIM card) can make
> calls *to a computer* and it can receive calls *from a computer* but we
> were never talking about *that* type of VOIP.

i'm talking about the other type of voip.

you're *so* lost.
 
> >> Both sending & receiving POTS calls, for example.
> > 
> > yep.
> > 
> >> Can VOIP receive a POTS call?
> > 
> > seriously?? 
> > 
> > do you even know what voip *is* ?
> 
> I have *plenty* of VOIP device, e.g., I use Ooma all the time and I have
> hangouts/gv on my iPads which can send and receive both calls and SMS for
> free to and from POTS lines.
> 
> But I have a SIM card in *all* my mobile devices.
> I'm asking if this can be done *without* a SIM card.

in other words, you don't know what voip actually is.

you just think you do.

> >> That is, does VOIP give you a real phone number of the format:
> >>  1-800-555-1212
> > 
> > that number is already taken.
> 
> Here's one of the times where you don't even understand the simplest of
> questions. If you can't understand a 555-1212 foo-style example, then
> you're *never* gonna understand the complexities of this question.

*whoooooooosh*

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Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-15 17:55 +0000
  Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-15 13:58 -0400
    Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-16 18:11 +0000
      Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-16 14:40 -0400
        Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-16 19:30 +0000
          Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-16 15:42 -0400
          Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-09-16 19:47 +0000
          Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-09-16 13:23 -0700
            Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-17 04:50 +0000
              Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-09-16 22:55 -0700
                Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-17 06:32 +0000
                Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 12:09 -0700
                Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-17 17:20 -0400
                Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 01:40 +0000
                Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-17 21:48 -0400
              Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? AL <noemail@none.invalid.com> - 2016-09-16 23:23 -0700
              Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-19 18:07 -0400
          Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-17 21:25 +0200
            Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-09-17 19:59 +0000
          Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2016-09-19 15:16 -0700
      Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-09-17 22:56 +1000
        Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 01:40 +0000
          Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-09-18 16:51 +1000
            Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 07:31 +0000
              Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2016-09-26 10:08 -0500
          Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-19 21:42 +0200
            Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-19 17:52 -0400
              Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-20 08:25 +0200
                Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-20 14:11 +0000
      Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-17 21:21 +0200
        Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 01:40 +0000
  Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2016-09-15 11:29 -0700
    Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-16 18:19 +0000
      Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? M.L. <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-09-16 21:18 -0500
  Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-17 21:19 +0200
  Re: Android GSM free telephone WITHOUT SIM card (is it possible on WiFi? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-19 18:03 -0400

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