T-Mobile Adds iOS App in Effort to Thwart Phone Spam With Call Block Feature
T-Mobile Name ID app for iOS and an update for Android will give customers more control over who can reach them on their mobile phone, said the carrier Monday. Citing the increasing annoyance of robocalls -- said to reach 5.1…
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billion during October -- T-Mobile said Name ID allows users to block and unblock callers from the call log, set number blocklists and manage calls by category: calls tagged as telemarketers; numbers tagged as nuisance calls; political, survey and individual calls can be sent directly to voicemail, it said. The feature identifies who’s calling and their organization, including those not in a customer’s address book, for more than 600 million numbers, it said. It’s included with T-Mobile ONE Plus and can be added to T-Mobile postpaid customers’ accounts for $4 per month per line.