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Google gave away the Google Voice number I had since the GrandCentral days, a number obviously used daily with purchased credits in the account and religiously

by kmbfjr 4y ago

Google gave away the Google Voice number I had since the GrandCentral days, a number obviously used daily with purchased credits in the account and religiously confirmed linked number. Zero customer support, no way to get the number returned and no refund on existing credits for toll services. And to add to the pain, they won’t give me a new GV number because it sees my linked number as a spam source and never sends the confirmation code. I am done with this outfit.

huh88267 4y ago
What do you mean they gave it away? I don't have a linked number to my GV anymore I just use it for 2fa codes... Is that not safe? Edit: MAKE YOUR NUMBER PERMANENT if you don't want to lose it due to 6 months inactivity. It's 20$. Also ported numbers are never recycled. I am happy with GV and will always use it.
- kmbfjr 4y ago
  They gave it to another GV user without warning, within 24 hours of its last use. You can not imagine the pain of having to recover the three accounts using that number for 2FA.
mindslight 4y ago
Are there any good VOIP alternatives to Google Voice that don't get tripped up as invalid phone numbers by other companies' snake oil authentication? From what I've found, GVoice is uniquely large and has enough "normie" Google Fi customers that companies can't discriminate the way they do against say Voip.ms and Flowroute [0]. My tentative plan is to get (another) cheap paygo SIM, stick it in a cell modem attached to a server, and set it up to forward all texts to email/xmpp/etc. Use that for all these longstanding snake oil auths. Then move my main personal number (used to be a mobile number, now at GVoice) to a VOIP service. At which point if someone can't call/text my personal number because they're using some crappy service (eg Comcast mobile), then too bad, they can figure it out. [0] I figure Twilio is in this same boat, although I don't have much experience with them?
- cuteboy19 4y ago
  Everywhere I tried, they discriminated against google voice too
- Wicher 4y ago
  Try https://jmp.chat https://jmp.chat . Nice features, excellent customer support.
sneak 4y ago
Wow, that's particularly egregious.

by kmbfjr 4y ago

huh88267 4y ago

What do you mean they gave it away? I don't have a linked number to my GV anymore I just use it for 2fa codes... Is that not safe? Edit: MAKE YOUR NUMBER PERMANENT if you don't want to lose it due to 6 months inactivity. It's 20$. Also ported numbers are never recycled. I am happy with GV and will always use it.

kmbfjr 4y ago
They gave it to another GV user without warning, within 24 hours of its last use. You can not imagine the pain of having to recover the three accounts using that number for 2FA.

mindslight 4y ago

Are there any good VOIP alternatives to Google Voice that don't get tripped up as invalid phone numbers by other companies' snake oil authentication? From what I've found, GVoice is uniquely large and has enough "normie" Google Fi customers that companies can't discriminate the way they do against say Voip.ms and Flowroute [0]. My tentative plan is to get (another) cheap paygo SIM, stick it in a cell modem attached to a server, and set it up to forward all texts to email/xmpp/etc. Use that for all these longstanding snake oil auths. Then move my main personal number (used to be a mobile number, now at GVoice) to a VOIP service. At which point if someone can't call/text my personal number because they're using some crappy service (eg Comcast mobile), then too bad, they can figure it out. [0] I figure Twilio is in this same boat, although I don't have much experience with them?

cuteboy19 4y ago
Everywhere I tried, they discriminated against google voice too
Wicher 4y ago
Try https://jmp.chat https://jmp.chat . Nice features, excellent customer support.

sneak 4y ago

Wow, that's particularly egregious.