>$99/year
Still too high for a phone number I expect to get an sms per day.
Still too high for a phone number I expect to get an sms per day.
If you can stomach $3/mo + tax (totaling a little over $40/year), UltraMobile PayGo is the cheapest consumer option I’ve seen. It’s a T-Mobile owned MVNO. It comes with 100MB, 100 minutes and 100 text messages per month, and is pay as you go after that.
Past that, I’d look into IoT cellular options.