The SMS Verification Market is Bigger Than Most People Realise: Data from 67,000+ Virtual Phone Numbers
The SMS verification market is expanding significantly, with a high utilization rate of virtual phone numbers. Quackr's recent report reveals that 97.6% of their inventory is actively rented, indicating a shift in how developers and businesses use these numbers. The demand is driven by needs for privacy, multi-account management, and automated verification processes.
- ▪Quackr's inventory transparency report shows that 66,214 out of 67,815 virtual phone numbers are currently in use across more than 15 countries.
- ▪The primary use cases for virtual numbers include multi-account management, privacy layers in applications, and automated verification pipelines.
- ▪VoIP blocking has become more aggressive, affecting the delivery of OTPs to virtual numbers, which has influenced purchasing decisions.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3965900) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Quackr Posted on Jun 3 The SMS Verification Market is Bigger Than Most People Realise: Data from 67,000+ Virtual Phone Numbers #privacy #sms #webdev #api We run Quackr, a virtual phone number platform that lets developers and individuals receive SMS verifications without exposing a real number. We just published our first inventory transparency report and the data was surprising enough that we thought the dev community would find it useful.
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