Messaging and calls through standard phone apps would be even better – I just want to be able to do it over IP, kind of like T-Mobile DIGITS, without using their eSIM.

The holy grail, to me, would be to port my real number to Cape and then, instead of using their eSIM, use an anonymous data-only eSIM.

You could, in this scenario, swap eSIMs as much as you want but retain the phone number your friends and family have, without Cape.co having your IMSI or IMEI at all.

I know that JMP and VoIP.ms exist, but we’re all aware of the compromises. Being able to do this over IP, with a real carrier, especially if it supported the native phone apps, would be incredible.

I’m interested to try them, but as far as I can’t tell, they only offer last mile app-based SMS and voicemail on iOS.

This is an important feature, to me, as it would be a (potentially better) alternative to JMP.

It seems like the ideal setup would be to port my main number to Cape and then use an anonymous data-only eSIM, but that won’t make sense until they add SMS to their Android app.

I also heard that they are adding RCS support. That will be awesome, too.

How do the speeds on Cape compare to your previous carrier?

4th vote for IronFox, but with the caveat that I have Cromite installed as a backup, for the rare occasion in which a site doesn’t render properly in Fox.