If you care about blinding the Tel Co of your financial information, sorry to say but you are a criminal.
Financial information is the ONE (single) information they cannot resell. Well, technically they can sell information if you miss account etc. And all your personal info if you default. But that is another subject.
All the other information they do sell, they will continue to sell just the same. Including DNS/email access times/location, etc.
Because there is no way to provide you with service without that information. And that is all conveniently associated with the phone number, which you gladly uses on facebook (or it discover via the App if you install it on android)
So, yes. This is pretty much a VPN. Just one more party that can influence your connection before the intended termination.
Sorry to be blunt, but you have no idea how "Targeting" works on Advertising/Telephone co.
When Verizon/Att/Tmo/etc sells your information to Advertising companies, they will "infer" your identity. They do not care if phone SIM have your ID associated. That ID is built from traffic.
If they see DNS requests to real state sites, they may put you in a bucket that says "high income", if they see searches (via DNS hijack to when you search by your addressbar like tmo does) for things like fastfood breakfast delivery, up in the "low income" bucket you go. Also, it will always have your Phone number.
Then those Advertising companies "enrich" this data with data from google or others, and can pin point you by email plus all the correlated data. Happy that you have facebook two factor auth to your SMS now?
It shocks me that people in this forum are completely oblivious to Tracking and think that the aborted "think of the children" law that requires you present an ID to buy a phone line has any importance...
So, to conclude, the traffic here is observed by the proxing entity, by the tel co, etc.
Financial information is the ONE (single) information they cannot resell. Well, technically they can sell information if you miss account etc. And all your personal info if you default. But that is another subject.
All the other information they do sell, they will continue to sell just the same. Including DNS/email access times/location, etc.
Because there is no way to provide you with service without that information. And that is all conveniently associated with the phone number, which you gladly uses on facebook (or it discover via the App if you install it on android)
So, yes. This is pretty much a VPN. Just one more party that can influence your connection before the intended termination.