I recently bought 2 smart phones (optimus and ascend). After a few days people starting telling me that whenever they tried to call either phone... it would redirect them straight to voice mail. After testing the issue myself, it seems that whenever the phones and/or applications are utilizing any data, calls get automatically redirected to voice mail. When I took it to a technician at the corporate store, he tested the phones and got the same results. He said that he believes it is because metropcs uses the same wave for data and phone call... read full review »