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>you are roaming and do not have access to texts I truly despise this. It effectively disenfranchises people for living outside of areas with good mobile cover
by _dain_ 2y ago
>you are roaming and do not have access to texts
I truly despise this. It effectively disenfranchises people for living outside of areas with good mobile coverage. Banks or utility payments or parking meters(!) or whatever should not be gated behind cellphone reception. Nevermind people who can't use a phone at all ...
- l72 2y agoI don’t have an international phone plan. When I travel overseas I cannot access my bank account and my primary credit card randomly asks for a phone number verification that I cannot update. I tried buying an sms number from twilio so that I could receive 2fa while out of the country but my bank (PNC) would not accept any phone number unless it was from one of the 4 major carriers in the US! My credit card (capital one) seems to have a phone number on file from Mastercard. If I change my phone number in capital one, whenever I get into the Mastercard extra verification, it does not use the updated number. I have no idea how to get Mastercard to update it. I just ended up using a different credit card!
- fmajid 2y agoI moved from the US to the UK. I ported my US mobile number to Twilio, but that service is incredibly unreliable even for basic things like forwarding a call or a SMS. I had another number on Google Voice, and moved all my US accounts to it whenever possible. The great thing about Google Voice is that since Google doesn't believe in humans providing customer service (or more generally in providing customer service, period), there are no gullible CSRs that can be conned or bribed into SIM-swapping you unlike the mobile carriers.
- throw283727 2y agoThe bad thing about Google Voice is if Google closes your account then you're screwed.