2FA Phone Validation: French Polynesia numbers failing validation

[mikeyarce]

Steps to reproduce

1. Starting at URL: https://wordpress.com/me/security/account-recovery
2. Enter a valid French Polynesian phone number (89 XX XX XX)
3. Validation fails

Related: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/25163

In our forked version of node-phone, we only account for French Polynesia numbers having 6 digits, but they can also have 8! https://github.com/Automattic/node-phone/blob/e30f6b652a135819b5b9e7fa3bb84d36987a6cea/lib/iso3166Data.js#L1408-L1413

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_French_Polynesia

I also tried entering a 6 digit phone but that seemed to fail as well, so not sure where the validation is failing.

[rambogenius]

For 9 digit numbers in Cameroon also the Validation fails. hc-11472712

[katinthehatsite]

I have another report from the Upworker in Cameroon who also can not secure their account:

I tried a bunch of Cameroon phone numbers and none of them could validate.

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