Americans Abroad

GoneOffShore

(17,644 posts) Mon Jan 28, 2019, 12:02 PM Jan 2019

Keeping a US phone number via Google Voice.

Has anyone had an experience with porting their US cell number to Google Voice and Google Hangouts, so that they can actually drop their US cell provider.
It's presently costing us 98USD per month on T-Mobile to maintain our numbers. We're 'roaming' with them and suspect that they will soon cut us off. Unfortunately for banking and financial stuff we need to keep a number where we can receive texts.
I have searched and get contradictory answers.
Any advice will be useful.

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Keeping a US phone number via Google Voice. (Original Post) GoneOffShore Jan 2019 OP

I use a Skype US number CurtEastPoint Jan 2019 #1

Can you get texts to a Skype number? GoneOffShore Jan 2019 #2

CurtEastPoint

(19,229 posts)

1. I use a Skype US number

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 12:30 PM

Jan 2019

I use this number when I travel to Europe so I can call home for nothing

GoneOffShore

(17,644 posts)

2. Can you get texts to a Skype number?

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 12:39 PM

Jan 2019

That's the method that banks are increasingly using for two step authentication.

And definitely the one credit card companies use.

We have a French bank account and debit card, but we are going to maintain our US credit cards because we'll never get them here.

We have no plans to return to the US to live. We're going once next year to clear out our storage locker, and then that is that.

The bridges are burnt.

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