Buy a new digital number

The following information is useful IF you couldn’t find a phone number for your country with SMS capabilities, or want to use a toll-free phone number

If you want to buy a new virtual number, you can do it with Twilio following this guide.

When using a digital number, you’ll need to verify ownership of the number with Meta through a phone call.

To do so, you’ll need to set up call-redirects so that when Meta calls you with a verification code, you can answer in a different phone, to do it you just need to:

1. Check that you can route calls to a phone number in your country.

   Twilio by defaults blocks calls made to high-risk destinations (like Mexico). To allow them, go to this page on Twilio’s console and using the search bar make sure your country is selected, then click on Save. Make sure its selected in both Low-Risk AND High-Risk.

   

2. Redirect your new Twilio phone to any phone inside that country.

   To do it, Twilio has a very helpful guide to do so with Twilio Studio: https://www.twilio.com/docs/studio/tutorials/how-to-forward-calls

3. Test your number.

   Test that if you call your new Twilio phone number, the number you forwarded it to is the one that rings. If this works, you’re all set!