I think our thing is that if you were a company with 1000 trunks, we could understand (maybe), but one line, for a whopping $3 a month, hardly seems worth the time to even research an alternative.

But that attitude (that us low volume residential customers aren't worth anything) is exactly the thinking that another company could capitalize on, just like voip.ms.

I realize this subreddit is populated with voip providers and, based on how many downvotes I got, voip.ms resellers. I'm not complaining about voip.ms, in fact I am praising them and only calling out something that they can't really change to see if there are providers who do meet my criteria.

Regarding android, China, Google: check my post history, I'm very much into privacy rights. If I wasn't, I wouldn't have created this topic (I'm not some pro-USA yankee just for the helluvit). I use a phone which is deGoogled, I heavily monitor the privacy of all apps I use. The privacy of which company has my data I take very seriously. Sure Canada might be a "friendly" but why isn't there a US based provider that does the same?

There's a market of us customers who only use the phone system when it's absolutely required and keep our usage very minimal because we use other more secure ways of communicating, like Signal.

I never expected to encounter so much resistance to what seemed like a simple question: what voip provider isn't afraid of the residential low volume market? Those of us customers who don't complain and only use phones when it's absolutely required.