alt Hacker NewsTelnyx was cool until they started demanding KYC. I would use them for burner phone numbers until they started saying they needed my government ID. Fuck that.
OVH same thing. Tried to buy a VPS from them some years back and they said no VPS unless I provided ID. Would not refund me. Tried to dispute but my bank just gave me a credit instead.
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There were new regulations passed to combat robocalls that forced these companies to tighten up.
Seems like a good riddance, telnyx is for business usecases, not for personal use.
Such use would be incompatible because it would lure in fraud, which would ruin the reputation of shared comms resources like ip blocks, phone number blocks, etc..
If you are doing real business, you are providing KYC as a daily matter in procurement, thereby protecting consumers from Sybil scum.
You can go on telegram and pay someone $10 to do the KYC for you.