Finally used my L5 for a Call

I have a new business account with T-Mobile, and I had a troublesome tech support call. So I got $40 off my bill because of downtime but before I ended the call I asked “Do you have any other promotions?” They sent me a new Galaxy S24 FE, (a.k.a. another 'Droid) and lowered my business account bill by another hundred bucks a month (not counting lines).

When the new 'Droid came in, I made another tech support call and asked: “Okay, my new phone came in, now what do I do?” It didn’t come with a SIM but it had two eSIMs, eSIM #1 and eSIM#2. eSIM#1 was a new number and eSIM#2 blank. In the process of transferring my old phone number to the new phone on eSIM #2, because I was talking on my old phone and the tech support person wanted to make the change remotely she asked: “Do you have another line I can call you on?”

“As a matter of fact, I have this L5 thing … let me look it up the number.”

To make this long story short, after a couple years my L5 had its first incoming call that lasted over 30 minutes. The volume was faint but it worked. However I had to have the volume set to the max and the speaker on. I don’t think the low volume is because I’m a senior citizen and need a hearing aid, because my 'Droid volume is just fine.

Another thing…

I usually just use my L5 to call my 'Droid phone in the house when I can’t find it. Lately it has occurred when I do that, it comes back saying it “timed out”, and then 30 minutes later, my 'Droid finally rings, after I found it without the L5 help.

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Congratulations.

It works well from my experience. Would live to eventually see E2EE calling one day, but who knows?

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Calls/SMS/MMS have been very reliable for me for a long time, across three different carriers (or two if you consider Mint and T-Mobile the same thing).

I still get occasional problems (yesterday by screen wouldn’t turn on so I coudl answer a call, but after it stopped ringing the screen came back on and I called the person back) but these issues are very few and far between. 95% or more just work.

Personally, I’m really waiting on things like call waiting, placing people on hold, merging calls, etc. These features would be great to have.

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Absolutely the features I am waiting for

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