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usephrase said
@CAD,
How many days your TextNow phone number keeps alive? 

I cannot say as I keep it alive every Sunday.

As for Fongo, I got an email to USE it or LOSE it and somewhere in the email they mentioned 60 days before number is gone.
Better to keep it alive every week the to push your luck 🙂

CAD said

I cannot say as I keep it alive every Sunday.

As for Fongo, I got an email to USE it or LOSE it and somewhere in the email they mentioned 60 days before number is gone.
Better to keep it alive every week the to push your luck 🙂  

Thanks, I will make a call weekly, now I make a call every day because their website does not tell exactly how many days, they say to make a call for a few days.

I am sure something wrong, TextNow can not receive SMS text from banks, I tried 2 banks. But I use my TextNow number to send text messages to my textnow phone number, always received texts from its own number. I guess that TextNow SMS network does not connect to some of GSM/CDMA or certain networks, TextNow has no problem to send a text to its SMS network.

I used my Textnow to call my home phone number, most of times, failed to go through to leave a voice message on my home. Textnow called banks, always worked. Fongo never had problems to make or receive calls.

CAD said
I believe some companies like banks do recognize app voip numbers as Not being real mobile number and will not send 2FA to it due to security reasons.  

RBC website information:
Compatible Canadian Carriers 
Aliant Mobility
Bell Mobility
Fido
MTS
NorthernTel Mobility
Rogers Wireless
SaskTel Mobility
Télébec Mobilité
TELUS Mobility
Vidéotron
Virgin Mobile Canada
Freedom Mobile

I do not think the SMS system in bank is smarter enough to check the receiver's phone number, because checking it will use much resource ( CPU, memory, database...). The SMS system in bank connects to certain Compatible GSM/CDMA Carriers, I think RBC should test if compatible or not then make sure RBC SMS can send to any of big mobile network providers.

TextNow SMS network is either not compatible or for cost saving, they did not work with banks to receive SMS from banks.