From what I’ve heard, it’s very easy to change your phone number on T-Mobile.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We need to kill phone numbers like, yesterday. It’s too hard to change a phone number.
dog_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Good luck getting all your 2FA changed on all your accounts. Good luck updating all your friends and family. Good luck informing every company you do business with.
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looks like a USA problem.
Idk about 2FA, but updating friends and family is insanely easy on most messaging platforms. I can update my phone number and then WhatsApp or Telegram will prompt those who chat with me that I’ve changed my number and they can switch to that number for chatting.
As for contacting businesses, this seems like a personal situation, since I contact companies via the above messaging apps. So they will receive a notification about my updated number.
I’ll verify if this is optional, so we can choose if people get that notice…
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You act like those aren’t the reasons my number is getting changed.
dog_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IMHO, you shouldn’t use your phone number for 2FA anyways.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I agree, but usually don’t have an option.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Spam callers don’t seem to care what number they’re dialing.
dog_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fair point.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
We need a way to give a unique number to everyone, record who we gave them to, enforce that only they can use it, and burn them at any time.