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> other options available to her include

> port her cellphone number to a VOIP provider that does support receiving SMS from shortcodes over wifi

That's generally a great solution – unless the company she's dealing with is one of those that don't send SMS-OTP codes to VoIP numbers for seCuRiTy reasons, or demand that the number is somehow "registered in her name" (which many smaller carriers apparently don't do).

I really wish that were illegal. A phone number is a phone number.

> she turned on wifi calling on her phone. now she could receive SMS messages from friends and family, but 2FA codes still weren't coming through.

Interesting, I was under the impression that SMS over IMS was implemented transparently to external senders. But given what a hack the entire protocol is, I'm not really surprised.

parent lxgr 1 year ago

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