Users in Hawaii (area code 808) and Alaska (area code 907) who have AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, or Sprint wireless service, can now sign up for TrapCall via our website or one of our increasingly popular mobile apps.

With this latest expansion, TrapCall now supports the top 5 wireless carriers, in all 50 states.

We’ve been getting requests for MetroPCS support for years, and frankly, we didn’t think it was even possible until recently. You see, TrapCall can’t work without conditional call-forwarding on a users phone. MetroPCS does offer this, however, they have strict limitations on where users can conditionally forward their calls to — something no other carrier in the US has. MetroPCS only allows users to forward calls to “local” numbers. Unfortunately, the definition of a “local” number is extremely vague and there’s no rhyme or reason to how MetroPCS designates a “local” area. Even MetroPCS store employees don’t know the exact definition of a “local” calling area!

We spent some time looking at this limitation, digging deeper into the issue, and we eventually found a workaround that enables us to offer MetroPCS support in almost every area across the country. Sorry that it took so long, but MetroPCS support is finally here! It wasn’t easy, but we think you’ll agree it was worth it.

MetroPCS does not include call-forwarding in its plans, so it’s also important to note that you HAVE to add the call-forwarding feature to your plan BEFORE signing up for TrapCall. This can be done by updating your account at MetroPCS.com.

It’s been a long road since we launched TrapCall almost 3 years ago now. We’re thrilled to finally be doing our first expansion outside of the US, as we realize that some of you find TrapCall to be an invaluable tool. Even a life saver at times. TrapCall is a product for the people, no matter how much the phone companies or the regulators dislike it. And we want to bring TrapCall to as many of you around the world as possible, which is what we’ll be focusing on doing in 2012.

So, Canada, we hope you don’t mind being the first country we empower, as we try to make TrapCall into a global service!

Activating TrapCall on your phone is something that varies carrier to carrier due to their different technologies, and unfortunately, AT&T was one of the carriers that required the most work on the users part. Until now. We took a long, hard look at this process and thought about how we could use a combination of different systems, technologies, and algorithms to help reduce the amount of steps we need a user to follow after sign up. We all know fewer steps is better and we were ready to do whatever it took to make the activation process as painless as possible.

These new behind-the-scenes automations have helped to reduce the number of activation steps in half on AT&T so that TrapCall is quicker and easier than ever to set up. Not only does this benefit users who sign up from our website, but we’ve also applied it to our mobile apps as well! We went to great lengths to get this new system planned out, developed, and put into production as soon as possible. We’d like to thank our awesome engineer, Bryan, for all the hard work writing this new system.

(Please note that if you are on T-Mobile, Sprint, or Verizon, your activation process is already as minimal as possible. Lucky you!)

Update: 1/13/2012 — We made another big improvement to these systems with our latest update today. Woohoo!

Not only does TrapCall work on the four largest cell phone carriers in the US, but TrapCall now also works on your home and office landlines. This is our largest expansion into new carriers since we added Sprint support, so we’re extremely proud of the new capabilities we’ve rolled out with this update.

Not only are landlines now supported, but you can also add TrapCall to additional home, office and mobile phone lines that you own. Say you’ve got TrapCall on your cell phone, and you want to add TrapCall to your home phone, you can now do this right in your existing account with just a few clicks in the new TrapCall Control Panel.

And last but not least, we’ve tweaked our Control Panel once again to keep you all on your toes! We’re joking, of course. We did, however, find some areas that needed to be simplified within our Control Panel, so we’ve rolled everything out as one tidy package.

We hope you enjoy the benefits of the new updates and that you find the new landline support useful in unmasking those pesky blocked calls. Prank callers beware, TrapCall is your nightmare!

TrapCall’s affiliate program gives webmasters the opportunity to share directly in TrapCall’s revenues by running TrapCall’s banner ads or by simply linking from their site to TrapCall’s site. TrapCall’s affiliate program at CJ.com provides affiliates with a wide variety of text and banner ads and a dedicated affiliate management team ready to work 1-on-1 with affiliates. TrapCall is hands down one of the most unique technology services available on any affiliate network and TrapCall is also the only company in the world that offers Caller ID unmasking technology to consumers.

For every sale an affiliate generates with the TrapCall affiliate program, the affiliate earns 100% of the first months package price, netting the affiliate between $4.95 to 24.95 per conversion! Best of all, there’s no limit to how much you can make with TrapCall’s affiliate program.

For more information on TrapCall’s affiliate program at Commission Junction, or to sign up to promote TrapCall on your website or blog, please visit: http://www.trapcall.com/affiliate/?network=cj.

Did we mention that signing up for TrapCall’s affiliate program is free and takes just a few seconds?

TrapCall’s official affiliate program has just launched! This is your opportunity to earn money promoting TrapCall’s one-of-a-kind service. You earn between $4.95 and $24.95 every time you refer a new customer to sign up for TrapCall! (the payout depends on the package the customer signs up for)

There’s no limit to how much you can make with TrapCall’s affiliate program. We expect some motivated affiliates will make nice livings off simply referring customers to TrapCall.

Signing up for TrapCall’s affiliate program is free and takes just a few seconds. Just visit http://www.trapcall.com/affiliate to get started earning today.

The site is HarassingCalls.com and for $39/day ($249.00/month) they offer a call forwarding service with the call logs of all the calls you received from that day. $39 a day to forward your calls to an 800 number and give you the call logs? Not to mention that two phones are required and no additional perks of the service could be found anywhere. Are people really paying for HarassingCalls service when TrapCall offers the same service (unblocking blocked calls, with lots of extra features, even on our most basic package) for just $4.95 a month? Why pay MORE for a service with LESS features?

We wanted to put TrapCall.com and HarassingCalls.com head-to-head for our blog readers to see the difference. Below is a feature comparison chart of TrapCall.com versus HarassingCalls.com.

Update: 4/15/2011 – HarassingCalls.com seems to have raised their prices to a whopping $129 per day or $329 per week! This is not a typo.

Features	HarassingCalls	TrapCall
Calls Go Back To Your Phone
Requires One Phone
Instant Activation
Online Control Panel
Realtime Call Logs
Caller ID Name & Address Information
Voicemail Transcriptions
Missed Call Alerts
Blacklist Numbers
Incoming Call Recording
Cost	$39/day	$4.95-$24.95/month

Sprint users can now unmask blocked calls and put an end to those unwanted harassing calls! Of course, our other great features like incoming call recording, voicemail transcriptions and Caller ID name with address are all available on Sprint as well.

Head on over to our Sign Up page and get TrapCall for your phone. Now for Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon!

This week we rolled out our new and improved online dashboard for TrapCall users. The new dashboard is easier to use than ever, with better organization and easier access to your TrapCall records and settings. Once logged in, you’ll also notice we’ve put together a simplified main page with easier access to your most recent call logs, voicemails and recordings, plus a quick blacklist feature making it quicker than ever to blacklist a number!