insert_link Tech Made Simple Verizon Makes it Easier (and Cheaper) to Filter Spam Calls Annoyed daily, hourly, minute-by-minute by those annoying and incessant spam and robo calls? Verizon is finally taking steps to reduce the number of calls its customers receive, announcing last week that it now offers a free version of Call Filter, its robocall- and spam-call blocking service, which used to cost customers $3 per month. With the free version of Call Filter, Verizon customers get spam detection, blocking, and reporting. The […] todayApril 3, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple T-Mobile’s Coolpad Surfs Service to Rural Areas T-Mobile announced the launch of the Coolpad Surf, a 600MHz mobile hot spot that, aside from having a super cool name, is designed to bring greatly improved coverage service to their long ignored and underserved rural areas. It’s the first mobile hot spot to support Band 71, or 600MHz LTE, which T-Mobile recently won the spectrum license for from the Federal Communications Commission Broadcast Incentive auction last April. The Coolpad […] todayJanuary 29, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Verizon’s Free Spam Protection Verizon has just announced that it will offer free spam and robocall protection to its subscribers starting this March. The "Call Filter" service, which was previously available as a $3 add-on, will be offered for free to all Verizon customers with phones that support the features, including iPhones and Android phones. It's about time: competing carriers T-Mobile and AT&T have been offering the same free spam filtering service for quite […] todayJanuary 24, 2019