We’ve done this, essentially porting away the SMS piece of a number. From my 
experience, Bandwidth doesn’t allow “3rd party SMS enablement” of their 
numbers, but INTQ does.  I have a subset of my numbers with INTQ specifically 
because of this. 

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> On Aug 17, 2022, at 6:21 PM, Carlos Alvarez via VoiceOps 
> <voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I mentioned this as an option, but the scheduling vendor didn't like the 
> idea.  I'm guessing they don't have a billing method for this.  Right now 
> it's on hold until he can get someone on his tech side involved.  I was more 
> just curious about his concept that he thinks they have done a split before.  
> He may be completely mistaken.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:15 PM Matthew Duggan <matthew.dug...@ciptex.com> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi There,
>> 
>> Twilio Gold Partner here. If they port the number to Twilio then using 
>> Twilio Programmable Voice they calls could be forwarded either via sip or 
>> pstn back to yourselves.
>> 
>> They would have to pay Twilio the Egress cost. Feel free to message me 
>> offline for further assistance.
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>> From: VoiceOps <voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org> on behalf of Jorge Guntanis 
>> via VoiceOps <voiceops@voiceops.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 11:04:12 PM
>> To: Carlos Alvarez <caalva...@gmail.com>
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>> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Splitting voice and SMS
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>> If they are already in twilio, they can create a SIP Trunk where you'd 
>> connect to to get the inbound calls. 
>> That way SMS stays at twilio and voice goes to you.
>> 
>> I'm not aware of another way to do it cleanly.
>> 
>> El mié, 17 de ago. de 2022 3:56 p. m., Carlos Alvarez via VoiceOps 
>> <voiceops@voiceops.org> escribió:
>> We had an odd customer request, via a vendor trying to provide them with 
>> automated scheduling services via SMS.  They are asking us to "release the 
>> SSID" to allow them to do SMS on the number, but we keep the voice.  I'm 
>> unaware of this ability, and they even said that so far, most carriers won't 
>> even discuss it with them.
>> 
>> Their service rides on the Twilio API, and I *think* Twilio uses Bandwidth.  
>> This number is currently with Bandwidth.  So I don't know if that might make 
>> a difference.
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