I realize I just repeated what I said at A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code - #35 by jonah
IMO there is no valid reason to say something like “stay connected coast to coast, without tracking” on their homepage, when the service does not protect against cell tower tracking (obviously what is implied here), nor does it (to my knowledge) protect against T-Mobile monitoring your network traffic.
The only privacy you are getting is from Phreeli themselves, which hardly qualifies as a value add at all, especially for $20-$40/month more than competitors with no unlimited data plan?
If Merrill is going to improve Phreeli’s privacy protections in the future, then good for him, but it’s crazy to buy (or sell) a service based on future promises.