T-Mobile to offer landline VoIP service for $10 a month
Written by admin on February 25th, 2008 in gadgets.
T-Mobile has decided to enter the VoIP landline phone service market in Seattle and Dallas in order to compete with AT&T. The new service offered by T-Mobile would allow current T-Mobile subscribers to add a VoIP-based landline phone service for as little as US$10 a month. This is a little different than the HotSpot@Home service, which allows unlimited home-based calling through a compatible T-Mobile wireless phone.
Bloomberg is reporting that the new service would allow customers to hook up any home phone to a router in order to use the service. This is the same type of connectivity offered by traditional VoIP service providers like Vonage. The router required for the service will retail for $49.99 after rebate. Internet connectivity must also be provided by the customer in order to use the service.
Read more from the Bloomberg article.
Brian’s Opinion
VoIP-based calling will allow purely wireless service providers to enter the market typically owned by traditional phone companies. This is good news for consumers, because it means increased competition for VoIP-based services; and that in turn usually means lower prices. I thought $25 a month for unlimited phone service from Vonage was cheap. I think I could handle only $10 a month, since most people have a wireless phone anyway, which would be the only requirement.
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