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What do you mean? You can filter by the number type in their api. They do offer mobile numbers.


No, they don't. There is a proper industry definition of what a "mobile" number is and only "mobile" numbers can accept SMS from shortcodes.

All of the 2FA from FANGs and banks and so on come from shortcodes so you can't do a lot of those 2FA workflows with a twilio number (or a number you port to twilio).

As per engineers at the Signal conference, there are no plans to make proper "mobile" numbers available at twilio.


Ahh, receiving short codes is a niche I've not yet encountered, that makes sense.




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