Generally I'd rather recommend to look for like some open & public #WiFi like #Freifunk which requires no registration or anything to use and which are really common...

• And if you really need a phone number then I guess you either have to get a #postpaid #contract or some cheap, #PayAsYouGo - kinda #prepaid option.

Not ideal, but at least affordable to a degree...

@ohno_itsnate Granted, the #USA is a garbage market in terms of devices and networks, way worse than #Germany was in the 1990s cuz even then #NetLock & #SimLock was so unpopular that no #postpaid #customer accepted those and even in #prepaid with subsidized handsets they got basically boycotted out of the market in the early 2000s.

I do acknowledge that @GrapheneOS has valid reasons why they keep few devices supported (tho granted it's up to #vendors to up their game - their demands ain't absurd nor unfulfillable!)...