Many expatriates with US bank accounts use Voice for 2FA. Not anymore.
I have no issues getting text for 2FA. But I use the Google Voice app and don't forward my texts to a different number
Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS
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Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS
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some banks blacklist voip #s (and hence google voice #s it seems) so 2FA notifications fail to go them. I wonder if people who have google fi have the same issue.
There are lists of numbers owned by voip providers. If you have an early gv number it is usually not on those lists, and so it works fine. Whether that's a good thing is another question.
my google voice # is actually my former sprint #. still gets blocked by some banks, though almost all of them that do block, have options for e-mail or voice call, so doesn't impact me much.
Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS
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Google puts gmail spam in your spam folder, and they're terrible at mistaking legit stuff for spam. While their overzealousness is annoying, at least you still have the message in the spam folder. There is no SMS spam folder, so they'd have to drop messages they think of as spam.
Over the last year or so, I started get obvious spam (weird spellings with numbers or other characters and such) in my Gmail inbox on average once a day.
Meanwhile, I have accounts for years for only person to person communication and services, and I still get sent to spam — Gmail to Gmail!
What the hell happened, Gmail spam team?!
Re: Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS
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I 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$.
This 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.
I'm with ATT and have been since about 2006. For all their faults, they've never let me down with foreign cell service.