Wireless Adventures Continue in 2022 - Moving from Google Voice

Sony has updated Xperia 1 mark 3 to Android 12 and that fixed the problem of SMS messages not being received. I also found out that 5G would not work on AT&T, but their LTE service is top notch in L.A. and worked well, although it is the most expensive option for me ($45 plus another $5 in taxes for unlimited MAX is the cheapest prepaid option; I could get postpaid Unlimited Extra is $46.25 after all the discounts for 2 years, then it goes up $10 after the "port-in" $10 credit ends). My other gripe is I could not get WiFi calling to work with the Sony and it is Sonys fault. So far only Google Fi would support it, but their plans are not that great price wise and I did not had great luck with T-Mobile Magenta while roadtripping so it became a non starter (although I did conteplate it for a while). At the end paying $50 for Unlimited (new rate in April of 2022) + Tax (another mystery charge) extinguished my interest in going with Google Fi. Spectrum was more transparent including taxes and disclosed them as $1.82 itemized charge. Why would I not stay with Google Voice? First reason is inferrior voice quality. I have tried multiple phones on local calls and got response that "I was sounding like coming from the barrel", also I had problems hearing the person I was talking too. I presume it is due to overzealous compression. And when I called internationally (I called Mexico) the sound quality was so poor that I could not communicate at all. The second reason was that I am using this phone number for 2 factor authentication and there are services that would not authenticate over "VOIP" numbers. The third reason was that Viber and Line would not authenicate over "VOIP" phone number. So although good in theory Google Voice is limited and becoming less and less useful for somebody who is on the lookout for a better service and would like avoid porting numbers around. My conclusion is that I need a service that would provide best price with good coverage in U.S. and worldwide if needed for reasonable price and Spectrum checks all the boxes so far. I did use Spectrum Mobile in Mexico and the charges were reasonable ($.01 per megabyte so Gig would cost you $10). We just used it for Google maps and Yelp so so the charges were like $.24. WiFi at the hotel was for all the heavier data use. Later today... Transfering number from Google Voice is a nightmare. Instead of couple minutes on regular carriers I was informed it is going to take 1-4 DAYS. So now I have a de-activated SIM on Spectrum and no number to route calls from.