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Many expatriates with US bank accounts use Voice for 2FA. Not anymore.
by pseingatl 5y ago
Many expatriates with US bank accounts use Voice for 2FA.
Not anymore.
- curiousgal 5y agoNope, I still get my code via email. They only stopped forwarding to linked numbers.
- vsnf 5y agoIt is precisely because Google Voice is a Google property that I, as an expat, have taken great effort to keep my US phone number with my US carrier. Trusting Google with such an absolutely critical aspect of one's life is lunacy.
- rjzzleep 5y agoWhat did you choose? I used Google Fi for a while but it's becoming gradually worse, so I've kept it mainly for the off chance that I need to go somewhere I can't easily buy a sim card.
- fabbari 5y agoI travel to Europe a lot - being originally from Italy - and they will have to grab my original 30$ per month contract from my cold dead hands. I get - slow - unlimited data when travelling and free SMSs, saved my bacon more than once. I think they have something similar for 45$.
- rjzzleep 5y agoThis question was specifically targeted at the parent. People need a long term number when they're overseas because otherwise their home services 2FA doesn't work. People use GVoice or Google Fi because they need a US number. Ideally you don't want to switch sim cards for that purpose. So I'm more interested in the US.
- vsnf 5y agoI'm with ATT and have been since about 2006. For all their faults, they've never let me down with foreign cell service.
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- weird-eye-issue 5y agoActually that is one of the use cases I use it for and nothing has changed. I get it through the app and over email. Not sure why an expat would have SMS forwarding anyways because I'm not sure they ever allowed forwarding to a non-US number in the first place (not sure about this though)
- humanlion87 5y agoI have no issues getting text for 2FA. But I use the Google Voice app and don't forward my texts to a different number