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T-Mobile at Home Phone Service

by admin on June 29, 2008

T-Mobile’s @home phone service goes nationwide.

T-Mobile will most likely announce Wednesday that it’s new @Home voice service will be available right across the US starting July 2 2008.

The mobile phone operator has been testing the new @Home Internet telephone service since February in Seattle and Dallas. Now the Home service, which is designed to replace traditional home phones, will be available to any T-Mobile cell phone customer just like a VOIP aka ‘Voice Over Internet Protocol’ service.

T-Mobile subscribers can connect any regular home phone to a T-Mobile router which will allow you to make calls over the Internet instead of via regular copper phone lines. The will costs $10 a month for unlimited domestic local and long distance phone calls.

You will need to be a T-Mobile wireless customers and subscribe to a minimum $39.99 individual call plan or families subscribing to a minimum $49.99 monthly T-Mobile calling plan to be eligible for the service. The @Home service also requires that users subscribe to an internet broadband service to enable the calls to be router via the internet. You will also need to use an equipped T-Mobile router, which is Wi-Fi capable so all up it’s not a bad deal and offers huge cost savings especially to heavy users of the phone service.

This router is also capable of providing the T-Mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot @Home phone service. This service allows T-Mobile customers to use dual-mode cell and Wi-Fi phones that automatically switch between both networks. When you are in range of your home Wi-Fi hot spot, you automatically use your broadband network to make unlimited domestic calls over your internet connection. When you stray away from your home Wi-Fi network, the phone automatically switches to the T-Mobile cellular network which is damn handy if you ask me. I’m not sure what happens if you initiate a call on the Wi-Fi and while the call is in progress you exit the Wi-Fi’s reach, but i would assume T-Mobile have this covered by allowing auto-switching while the call is in progress.

While the one year trial was in operation, T-Mobile indicated a massive 45% of new subscribers were “not” an existing T-Mobile customer and actually ditched the old provider just to utilize the new @Home service. This is a pretty substantial statistic, I’d say the guys at T-Mobile are about to get a lot bigger once the nation wide roll out occurs.

Are your children eating up call minutes talking on their cell phones at home? This new T-Mobile offering is for you, the Wi-Fi service will allow the kids to talk as much as they want without running up costly minutes which can equate to a very considerable yearly saving.

The only slight downfall is the @Home relies on regular internet access in order to operate, so if for any reason you loose broadband connectivity such as a cut optic fiber, a disconnection due to a billing mixup etc you can find yourself without your @Home service. So while it is very cheap and convieneint for heavy phone users i would advise you to have an alternate phone such as a regular mobile or even retain your regular copper wire phone on a minimal monthly contract for use in emergencies.

All in all, this offering from T-Mobile is a good one and is definitely the way of the future and it won’t be long before the other carriers like Cingular and Verizon Wireless jump on the bandwagon when their customers jump ship to T-Mobile for the new VOIP service. In the future, everything will be fed in to our homes via internet connection such as TV, Movies, Radio, Phone and many other services so this VOIP @Home service is the next logical step.

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