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Disable it and find out. It's easy enough. You can reenable it if it breaks something.
I'd try that but I don't want to end up finding out that disabling it permanently disables my phone's service. My phone's service is through Tracfone and they are the developers of the app.
That is extremely unlikely
Yes but it's still possible and I have yet to see someone mention that they were able to disable it and still use their phone service.
Yeah and a meteor could smash into your house in the next 30 minutes but I wouldn't count on that either.
The way apps work on android is, they are compartmentalized, if you disable a system app like this, the worst that will happen is some things may get wonky, if you enable it, it will start right back up again.
It's just a service, if it was something that tracphone wanted to absolutely keep you from disabling, they would have put it in the bootloader. It's most likely just a marketing app that they get kickbacks for including on their phones
Edit: Here, exactly like I said. My man you got this idea of a worst case scenario in your head with absolutely no evidence