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Unfortunately, only the basic detection works when you're on prepaid. The calls will come in, but you'll at least be warned. No, I'm not going postpaid, especia

Unfortunately, only the basic detection works when you're on prepaid. The calls will come in, but you'll at least be warned. No, I'm not going postpaid, especially given their history of data breaches. Still, I like seeing "Scam Likely" when a robocall comes in. Too bad they insist on engaging my voicemail - my least time-wasting option is to just pick up the call and immediately hang up. I'm extremely lucky that my cell phone gets only a few of these a week, but that's annoying enough.

tzs 5y ago
> Unfortunately, only the basic detection works when you're on prepaid. The calls will come in, but you'll at least be warned. No, I'm not going postpaid, especially given their history of data breaches. T-Mobile prepaid is odd. It is almost like it is an MVNE using T-Mobile's network rather than a part of T-Mobile. When I switched from postpaid to prepaid, for example, the T-Mobile mobile app stopped working. It says "Sorry we're not ready for you yet. We're working on improving your app experience" and suggests using the website instead. Checking on their forums, I see it has been doing this for years. They used to say they were working on it, but they stopped saying that. Still, I find it worth it because of the savings. I just need voice, text, and a small amount of data. The cheapest postpaid I see at T-Mobile that would be open to most readers here is $60/month for 1 line [1]. Verizon and AT&T seem to be a little above that. My prepaid T-Mobile plan is $15/month (around $17.something with taxes and fees, which are included in the $60 for the postpaid plan). [1] They have a plan for people 55+ which has about the same features for $40/month (plus taxes and fees, which are included in the $60/month plan). This puts them way ahead of Verizon and AT&T, whose "senior" plans are only available to Florida residents. WTF is up with that?

tzs 5y ago

> Unfortunately, only the basic detection works when you're on prepaid. The calls will come in, but you'll at least be warned. No, I'm not going postpaid, especially given their history of data breaches. T-Mobile prepaid is odd. It is almost like it is an MVNE using T-Mobile's network rather than a part of T-Mobile. When I switched from postpaid to prepaid, for example, the T-Mobile mobile app stopped working. It says "Sorry we're not ready for you yet. We're working on improving your app experience" and suggests using the website instead. Checking on their forums, I see it has been doing this for years. They used to say they were working on it, but they stopped saying that. Still, I find it worth it because of the savings. I just need voice, text, and a small amount of data. The cheapest postpaid I see at T-Mobile that would be open to most readers here is $60/month for 1 line [1]. Verizon and AT&T seem to be a little above that. My prepaid T-Mobile plan is $15/month (around $17.something with taxes and fees, which are included in the $60 for the postpaid plan). [1] They have a plan for people 55+ which has about the same features for $40/month (plus taxes and fees, which are included in the $60/month plan). This puts them way ahead of Verizon and AT&T, whose "senior" plans are only available to Florida residents. WTF is up with that?