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Beginning July 16, T-Mobile will offer Message Blocking, an add-on feature that gives customers the ability to block unwanted chargeable messages. T-Mobile will offer Message Blocking free of charge.
Our Message Blocking services will allow customers to block the following chargeable messages individually or all together:
Text/Picture Messages
Instant Messages
E-mail
Message Blocking should be recommended to customers if the following options will not meet their needs:
Message Value Bundle
Spam Filter (available via My T-Mobile)
Family Allowances feature (for family or multi-line individual plans only - launching soon. Stay tuned!)
Customers who use Message Blocking will continue to receive non-chargeable messages from T-Mobile that are required to maintain the service.
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I wonder if it will still let the free Amber Alert messages pass. Those are the only thing I use SMS for and would be happy to turn it off if I could still get warnings.
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1: Casio G'zOne Boulder Orange (Front Speaker) on The Network baby!
2: Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB Black with Otterbox Defender Series Case on AT&T
3: Motorola i880 Maroon with Body Glove Case on Nextel
Provider(s):
Nextel was a thriving culture within a company and Sprint SINGLE HANDILY DESTROYED IT. You try to pick up the pieces and move on, but sometimes it's just not quite that simple. When you watch something you LOVE so much die such a painful death, it makes moving on IMPOSSIBLE.
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Originally Posted by terryjohnson16
No. They didn't. They claimed you could go to My-tmobile and use the filter. But it was brought up before in May about them soon to launch it.
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I will confirm this. A rep I spoke to when I was cancelling my account told me about this as a way to not worry about random texts, etc. but I still proceeded to cancel Not bad for anyone that wants to use it though.
Strange, when I first signed up in 04 I was getting a lot of weird texts and I called customer service, they told me they could block them. The did something because in the last 4 years I have not had one spam message since they did what they did.
I wonder if it will work against those messages that cost per message like jokes, quote of the day etc... I've been lucky so far that none of my lines happened into one of these but who knows what tomorrow brings?
07-02-2008, 20:44
UnOfficial News: T-Mobile to allow message blocking on July 16th.
Not bad for anyone that wants to use it though.
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