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Re:Phone numbers are not proper verification by kintamanimatt on Monday January 16, 2017 @08:06AM (#13409710)
The solution to protect against loss is to have a backup. Keep a backup SIM from your home country (or for every country in which you have an important account), so in case of loss you can switch over to your backup and you can avoid this fuckery. In my experience it's not hard to keep a prepaid SIM active, even if it's not in active use.

This advice also applies to your wallet too: have a second bank account (at least) and second set of credit cards (with different institutions) in a second wallet. If you lose your primary wallet, you can immediately switch over to your backup.

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Re:Phone numbers are not proper verification by herbst on Monday January 16, 2017 @11:15AM (#13410781)
Heh, i actually tried. They would invalidate my other sim if i get a second one. There is no such thing as "backup sim" with the provider i was with.
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Re:Phone numbers are not proper verification by kintamanimatt on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:29AM (#13425356)
Then use a different provider.

I'm not trying to suggest you get a redundant SIM on the same account; that's not possible. You get a second prepaid account (with a different number) with either the same or a different carrier.

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Re:Phone numbers are not proper verification by herbst on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:37AM (#13425394)
How would that solve the initial issue tho? I still would have to change my phone number with dozens of different services.
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Re:Phone numbers are not proper verification by kintamanimatt on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:04PM (#13428593)
If you're looking for a work-free backup/restore solution, those don't exist. The point is that you'll at least have immediate access to an active number from your home country that you can give to your banks or whatever. This means your banks (and others) aren't going to be weirded out by that non-domestic phone number, which is a problem you were describing.

Sometimes you'll be able to port your number too.

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