I’m a US citizen living permanently outside the US with a need to maintain my US number. I’ve 100% degoogled my life with the exception of google voice and I’m looking to fully sever this relationship.

Does anyone have any privacy focused VoIP providers?

Bonus points - what I really actually need is a service that banks are happy to send 2FA codes too (I’m using WF and unfortunately I haven’t found a way to get them to do anything but codes via text but they won’t send codes to VOIP numbers) If this is a somehow a VOIP service WF doesn’t recognize awesome otherwise a cell phone provider would work fine too but I don’t want the standard verizon or at&t service as I don’t use any data, probably a few hundred texts per month and 30 minutes of WIFI calling.

  • jello@programming.dev
    3·
    1 day ago

    I’m in a similar situation actually. I use MySudo for VOIP wherever I can. It’s essentially my spam number just to get codes on, but I’ve never tested it with WF specifically.

    Tello and US Mobile are they best “real” number carriers I have found. $8/mo, and you can pay another service to forward all messages to your extra-US number. You’re trusting two parties for it, but I haven’t found a better way.

    • vapor_body@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Cheogram is $5 + $2.50/additional # and it has a data sim option that is only metered when you use it +$5 ANNUALLY, so even if you only visit the US once a year it never wastes money

      I will have to try those options too but just saying cheapest option I ever found & they’re on here too a Lemmy user recommended it actually

      They have a page for checking compatibility with 2FA stuff & whether it silently bounced, maybe we should make a giant page for comparing which of these numerous services cause issues with, say, Chase (holy shit chase is so annoying they will lock you out of all online & text services if you use a VOIP number aaargh, they finally admitted they do this to every # not associated with a real name, so I assume it would work if you import your old # to Cheogram)