I'm a manual QA tester.
I have a client (web-based) which allows certain business to send custom promotional text messages to their customers provided the business account has the customer's mobile phone number.
I've used services such as TextNow, which is a mobile phone / tablet app, that gives you (in this case, the "customer") a US-based mobile phone number for which the "customer" can send & receive text messages to other mobile numbers. This app uses an Internet connection as opposed to a cellular plan or service.
I'm looking for similar software that I can use on my PC. Why am I not using it on my iPad or iPhone? Both are... broken... over the course of the years.
Needs to be a US-based mobile phone number (most of the ones I've found are International numbers).
Needs to be either (a) a PC / desktop application, or (b) a web-based application that I can use on my PC.... not a tablet or smartphone app.
Needs to be able to receive the test text / SMS messages. I don't need voice (neither outgoing nor incoming) nor do I even need to be able to send text / SMS messages from this mobile number or application.
Any suggestions?