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lxgr05/14/20251 replyview on HN

I don't think SMS senders can actually tell the difference between Google Voice and other VoIP providers.


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quesera05/14/2025

Twilio has a lookup API, which returns the subscriber name and carrier.

Here's an example response (subscriber name redacted):

  {
    "data": {
      "name": "LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME",
      "line_provider": "Google/Bandwidth.com (SVR)",
      "carrier": "Bandwidth.com",
      "line_type": "landline"
    }
  }
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