[snowe2010]

You don’t know how phone numbers work… and you’re making really bad assumptions through your entire post. Just like shipping addresses are different than billing addresses, account owners are different than account payers are different than account assignees. Google is tying to account payers, not assignees. This is clearly incorrect to everyone else in this comment section.

[yellowapple]

> You don’t know how phone numbers work… and you’re making really bad assumptions through your entire post.

My understanding and assumptions are evidently no worse than yours.

> account owners are different than account payers are different than account assignees

For residential/personal phone plans, they are not. In my T-Mobile account there is exactly one person who can be designated as the owner, payer, and assignee for all of the lines on my account, that person being me. I can at most change the label on a given line, but that label can be literally anything.

> Google is tying to account payers, not assignees.

There is no notion of an "assignee" from any perspective that Google can see. There is only the account payer, which is one and the same with the account owner.

(If the payer is not the owner, then that's called fraud and is a crime in most countries.)

> This is clearly incorrect to everyone else in this comment section.

And it's also clearly incorrect by Google's own guidelines as quoted above. That's the entirety of my point.

We're obviously not going to change each other's minds, so this is probably the point where we should agree to disagree and move on. Last word's yours.