Alycidon

@gfml You can have the number as a landline. The only problem is that the number is read out as a single number e.g. Eight hundred thousand three thousand and twenty-four would be 803024. My bank on the other hand would read the digits one at a time Eight Zero Three Zero Two Four.       #Cheee - now I need to jump through CAPTCHA hoops just to post this, having had to go through two-factor authentication and CAPTCHA just to get here.  For heaven's sake, it's just a forum posting...... Having said that it let me in after 4 attempts even though it was wrong what I selected (proving a point). ... View more

I did come across an interesting issue this week. I rang PayPal from my landline and they wanted to text me a code. However, the only number I have recorded on the system is my landline. Now that's not normally a problem as the code still comes through on the landline in spoken form. However, it can't come through while I'm using the phone. ... View more

Today I was finally forced to add a mobile number. So I added my landline one and got a recorded message with the code number phoned back to me. The only oddity was that the message was the number in full as in "Three hundred and seventy-seven thousand etc. But it worked. ... View more

Berating someone for choosing not to have a mobile phone does not really address the issue. Whether you can't live without one is irrelevant to the conundrum; which is that as a matter of fact, not everyone has a mobile phone for whatever reason; and those that do may not keep them switched on 24/7. ... View more