This is the American way of thinking. But as a Chinese, don’t you think it is safer to have a phone number? So if you want a phone number, you have to pester Amazon’s customer service to help you activate it. Anyway, if you exaggerate the disadvantages of not having a phone number and say how miserable it is, they will always activate it for you. When I asked them to activate it before, they always said that they didn’t have the authority to give customers’ phones. Later, I found a good person and they activated it for me