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T-Mobile Launches 'Scam Shield' to Protect Subscribers From Scam Calls and Robocalls
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Okay? It also mentioned the main competition, so I think it's fair to talk about those as well.
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Whoops, my mistake. But the point is that none of it should cost extra, it's all stuff that should be included as part of basic phone service. Also, the T-Mobile one appears to only include caller ID for free (and will charge for the rest). Verizon appears to have a similar setup, and AT&T only offers blocking but charges for caller ID and the rest of the features.
These are things I've never seen charged for anywhere else in the world, it's just something that's expected. But American telcos know that customers just have to accept the service they're given because they often have few options to switch to. I stand by my original point that this is ridiculous.
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Keep telling us how your country’s phone service is better, we never get tired of it (but also this is new and useful information to us).
It's not just "my country" though. It's basically any developed country. And some developing ones.
I left the dumpster fire that is T-Mobile years ago for AT&T, and I've never regretted it for a moment.
Thank you, I’ve never heard that information before. It was extremely helpful for you to provide it.
Pay us to protect you from the thing we should be protecting you from in the first place.
ROBO: THREE a day? I receive 75~100+ a day. I'm with ATT but I use RoboKiller Premium which I found useless.
Pay? What do you mean? Free service per article.
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#1 - no - I'm guessing they leverage databases of known robo call sources.
#2 - All carriers have been logging phone calls accepted / declined / initiated for something like forever.
I was on a jury for a murder trial several years ago - part of the evidence was the cell phone company logs of the murderer's phone calls that afternoon. It included which tower his phone was making the call through, as well as which antenna on the tower - with the tower addresses and the antenna direction it was strong evidence of his (phone's) movements that day. ... and that was with a dumb flip-phone.
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For real? Do you post your number publicly somewhere? If I received that many, I would have long ago ditched the regular cellular plan and transitioned to something with a screener.
Did you get a SIM card and ongoing mobile service for free or did you pay some amount of money to a company to activate and retain that service?
Thought you were talking about the old metered minutes plans.
Unless you've found a carrier that provides free service then that part of your earlier post is moot since the anti-robocall service is free.
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That is the one silver lining in all this COVID cloud -- I'd been scheduled for jury duty in late March.... which was then cancelled.
Some of it is free:
Some of it costs $4/month:
This isn't all that different from what the rest of the major American carriers currently offer.
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I don’t see a way to get a proxy number in the app.
Edited to add: I now see it isn’t available until 7/24.
Edited to add: I now see it isn’t available until 7/24.
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I don't even see the app. Is the app available before 07/24?
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Lol. Sure.
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I'll be their source. The US telecommunications industry is pathetic and broken compared to most other countries. US coverage maps are really just areas they are licensed to provide service, not where they promise it. Giant holes exist in areas that are not near water because 'it's not financially profitable' to provide those people with the same degree of service as the larger cities. But these carries have no issues taking taxpayer money while not providing balanced services with public property. What property? Spectrum. Carriers sit on it for years to decades without using it so as to prevent competitors from being able to enter a marketplace. Most other countries require their telecoms to actually USE the spectrum provided to them to provide people with a service - they can't just buy it and hold it hostage. And that's the thing, US carriers only care about how much money they make and so they lie and steal to increase that number at the expense of the people who provided them the resources to do so.
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According to T-Mobile, Scam ID is the same as Name ID, which I already have installed. I was hoping the new features would be live. I guess we will see a new branded app on 7/24.