Anyone else having problem activating galaxy watch 4 as standalone?

Artay wrote:

So I just got two LTE galaxy watch 4's to use when I don't want to carry my phone with me (while exercising). After spending two hours at a T-Mobile store and another hour on the phone with a technician, they escalate and another tech comes on and advises me that the galaxy watch 4 cannot be used as a standalone on t mobile. It can only be used when connected and near the phone its paired with! WHY would T-Mobile sell an LTE watch that can only be used when connected to the phone? That is called a Bluetooth watch! Very frustrated with them wasting 3 hours of my time, when this could have been mentioned when the watches were ordered. And even then, why sell LTE watches instead of Bluetooth watches? Has anyone one had this issue? 

I'm sorry but that is a load of BS they gave you. I have had a smart watch sense 2015. Samsung themselves told myself and T-Mobile they are made to work on both standalone. you can make and receive phone calls on the watches own number and also ring when your phone rings. From 2015 - 2021 it worked that way with att and from 2021 till the end of May this year it worked that way with t-mobile. I'm dealing with the watch 3, on a stand alone plan, that does now ring when my phone rings but when I call my watches phone number, watch does not ring but on my phone it takes me to the watches voicemail. Everyone I have talked to in T-Mobile gives me a different answer. They still do not return phone calls.