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!

This has been a big week for us here at TrapCall. Not only did we release our iPhone, Android and BlackBerry mobile apps yesterday, but we finally were able to finish up a secret project we’ve been working on for some time now that we knew would be a killer app and a big money maker. Our developers just couldn’t resist porting their favorite mobile app to one of the world’s great platforms. With that, we bring you TrapCall for the popular TI-83 and TI-83 Plus calculators! Mobile access to your entire TrapCall account from any math class around the world.

Download it today in the TI Calc Store.

(We hope everyone had a great April Fools!)

Today is a glorious day for TrapCall users! Today we’re announcing the release of our TrapCall mobile apps. While this alone is big news, we’re going the extra mile and releasing mobile apps for the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry all at the same time — something we think has never before been done at this scale! The reason we were able to do this, largely stems from the fact that Apple took a whopping 201 days to approve our iPhone app…something we never would have expected.

We’re sorry for the delays, but we think it will be worth the wait. TrapCall’s new groundbreaking mobile apps are the only apps of their kind in the world that offer complete peace-of-mind with your mobile phone, by unmasking blocked and private calls, and even blacklisting unwanted callers. TrapCall’s mobile apps make setup and use of TrapCall easier than ever before.

Head over to our mobile apps page for the links to TrapCall in the iPhone App Store, the Android Market and the BlackBerry App World!

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!

As the months past, I could not find them. The young child’s grandparents were becoming increasingly scared and fearful for their granddaughter. Their concern was that their daughter was so far gone in the depths of drugs that she might actually use their granddaughter as collateral for drugs. A similar story had just broken in Cocke county, East Tennessee  where a man sold his young child for drugs.

We had no leads, the case was dead. Months later, out of nowhere, I received a call from a blocked number. I activated my Trap call line, and the number came back to California. It was a young man, he said he knew where this person was, and that he thought her child was in danger.  After a minute or two, he said he had made a big mistake in calling me, and he hung up. Thankfully, through the power of Trap call, I had his number. I called him back and over several days gained his confidence to where he gave me the address of this fugitive and her daughter. He said he initially called the first time because he was concerned about the well being of the child, but then he also  said that in his community, people just don’t “snitch”. He also stated that if I had not called him back when I did, he would never had called me again. I found the child 3600 miles away from her home. She was in Northern California living in a filthy run down trailer with her fugitive mother.

Now, with the help of Trap call, that 4 year old girl is thriving in the care of her loving grandparents back in her home in Tennessee.

I can quite frankly state that without the Trap Call technology, I may have never found that little girl.

How did TrapCall help you? Share your story by emailing us at testimonials@trapcall.com.

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?