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T-Mobile Will Soon Fine Some Third-Party Messaging Vendors $2,000 If They Send Illegal Spam | Cord Cutters News (cordcuttersnews.com)
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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We need to kill phone numbers like, yesterday. It’s too hard to change a phone number.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 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.

[–] dog_@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

From what I've heard, it's very easy to change your phone number on T-Mobile.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

You act like those aren't the reasons my number is getting changed.

[–] dog_@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IMHO, you shouldn't use your phone number for 2FA anyways.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I agree, but usually don’t have an option.

[–] dog_@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Fair ig.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 0 points 10 months ago

I avoid this wherever possible, because the only reason to do it is to track you more. It's expensive and more complicated to set up than app 2fa which is free to operate.

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 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.

WhatsApp: Screenshot_20231229-131041

Notice received when the number is changed on WhatsApp: IMG_20231229_131425_783

Telegram: Screenshot_20231229-131125

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...

Edit:

You can't specify who gets informed. If you've blocked someone, they will not get that notification.

I've also added images above to demonstrate how it works on the two platforms I mentioned.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Spam callers don't seem to care what number they're dialing.

[–] dog_@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Fair point.