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Re: Numbers coming in incorreclty - showing as foreign countries
It's really interesting - a few minutes after T-Mobile's response, I post my previous message, and then I restart my phone (I restart my phone every 3-5 days, on average), and the problem goes away. T-Mobile did not acknowledge they had a problem nor that they fixed it, but it seems to be okay now. Same device and my own SIM card. Maybe they sent a SIM refresh of some sort?1Ver0likes0ComentariosRe: Numbers coming in incorreclty - showing as foreign countries
It is interesting I just ran into this post. A few weeks ago, I started noticing that when most landlines call me, T-Mobile is sending the caller ID as +XXXYYYYYYY (where XXX is area code, YYYYYYY is phone number) - this format is incorrect. But when another cell phone calls me, T-Mobile is sending me the caller ID as +1XXXYYYYYYY (which is the correct format). So, since 611 has a very long wait time, I decided to chat with T-Mobile on Facebook (have had luck with that in the past) - after hours of trying to explain the issue, they finally agreed to escalate the issue as a ticket to their engineering team (that was on April 7, 2020). Before they escalated, I put another T-Mobile SIM card in my phone (I used a Samsung Galaxy S10, by the way, with the latest software upgrades). Let's call my SIM card SIM1, and this other SIM card SIM2. With SIM2, everything is correct! (all incoming numbers show as +1XXXYYYYYYY. With SIM1, however, when another cell phone calls me it correctly shows as +1XXXYYYYYYY, but when a landline calls me, caller ID comes in as +XXXYYYYYYY (which is incorrect). Today, April 9, 2020, T-Mobile gets back to me insisting (as they did on April 7, 2020) that it's a device problem, not a T-Mobile problem. It obviously is not a device problem, since when I use another SIM card (T-Mobile or not), the problem goes away. So it must be a problem with my own T-Mobile number, or my own SIM card (SIM1). It baffles me that for the first time, a problem is escalated within T-Mobile with no positive resolution to this problem. Maybe it's due to the COVID-19 lockdown, their engineers may be under a lot of pressure and avoiding issues like this that they do not consider (I assume) high priority? A lot of the language they used suggests that if the call is coming through and connects, then it should be okay. In the meantime, many landlines from around the US, when they call my T-Mobile number, are showing up as foreign callers. Maybe it's time to switch to a different carrier (after 13 years)?1Ver0likes0Comentarios