If you’re a T-Mobile wireless subscriber, you’ve got something to celebrate. On May 31, there’s a very cool feature coming to your mobile number, and it’s absolutely free. The service, called DIGITS, is essentially a cross-platform capability that allows a single number to works across multiple devices.
Originally launched in beta mode in December 2016, DIGITS is already being used by “tens of thousands of participants,” according to T-Mobile’s director of product marketing, Evan Feldman. In an announcement on Thursday, T-Mobile said:
“On Wednesday, May 31, all T-Mobile phone numbers will automatically become DIGITS, and all T-Mobile customers can use their DIGITS on virtually any connected device—phone, tablet, smartwatch, computer and more. For example, if you want your phone calls to ring both your smartphone and your connected smartwatch, DIGITS can make that happen. Want to shoot off a text from your tablet or laptop? DIGITS can do that, too. Moving forward, it’s all part of being a T-Mobile customer.”
T-Mobile also shared some interesting data around device and carrier network access in the United States. According to the company, more than 30 million users in the U.S. pay for at least two separate devices, meaning twice the access fees and twice the monthly payments. Business owners are the worst hit, apparently, with 31 percent of them having to juggle two or more devices for work and personal use. The cost of that extra usage amounts to $10 billion per annum.
T-Mobile’s Chief Operating Officer Mike Sievert, in a video blog (see below), says:
“We’re ending that awkward Two-Phone-Juggle. With DIGITS, you don’t have to carry two phones to have two numbers. Now, you can use more than one DIGITS line on the same smartphone—for business, for life, for anything you need. That’s going to save a lot of people a lot of juggling and a lot of money.”
There’s tremendous scope for DIGITS usage. Families can get rid of their landlines but still keep the number, parents can provide a DIGITS number to their child’s school so a call to that number will ring through on multiple devices, business users can have business and personal calls and texts coming in to the same device with different DIGITS numbers, users can even have it work on AT&T and Verizon devices, and so on.
Users can take a second DIGITS line for as little as $10 a month with AutoPay, and for a limited time, extra DIGITS lines come with T-Mobile ONE Plus for free. Plus is essentially an extension of T-Mobile ONE, their unlimited talk, text and high speed 4G LTE smartphone data plan, and includes unlimited HD video streaming for HD-capable devices.
For the tens of thousands of beta participants of DIGITS, T-Mobile is giving away the second DIGITS line absolutely free. To learn more about DIGITS, please visit the press-release page here.
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