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Old Sep 23, 2024 | 12:24 am
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Besides Alipay and Weixin themselves, I don’t think I’ve ever had a Chinese service for SMS verification (example, for public WiFi) actually work with a US-based phone number. The messages just don’t get sent (or received) without a +86 phone number.
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