Is it possible to get a Twilio number that looks like a UK mobile number?

Question

Twilio support pointed me at this page:- https://www.twilio.com/user/account/phone-numbers/available/GB/mobile

However, there never returns any results. I need a number that would appear to be a UK mobile number for receiving texts and phone calls.

The Twilio website points to StackOverflow for Community Support, so please forgive my basic question in the community.

Answer 1

Rob - Lauren from Twilio's support team here. I was just able to grant you access to our beta UK mobile numbers, so you should be able to find them now.

Mind navigating to the page you'd posted earlier and let us know if there are any issues?

Answer 2

Twilio employee here.

Twilio does offer UK mobile numbers.

I'm not sure why you're not seeing anything, but when I go to the UK mobile numbers section on Twilio I get back a bunch of UK mobile numbers. Are you able to see any other types of numbers? (Such as US numbers or local Dutch numbers)?

Answer 3

The UK mobile number search works fine for me (I'm based UK). But one thing of note is that as far as I am aware, Twilio UK mobile numbers are for receiving SMS only, no voice capability like the local numbers. That may or may not be relevant for your usage case.

Obviously if your require voice the local number can do voice and SMS any how, although here in the UK people are more comfortable SMS'ing mobile numbers as opposed to landlines.