T-Mobile Offers New VoIP service
T-Mobile has recently announce (Nov ‘09) that it is to launch a Voice Over IP home phone service in the United States.
The company announced that it would introduce a VoIP based phone service called T-Mobile@Home later this month which it hopes will compete with landline and other VoIP services in the US. The service will cost $10 a month, but customers must also have a T-Mobile cellphone plan (which typically start at $29.99 a month) and broadband Internet service (which typically costs $20 to $50 a month, depending on who the provider is).
The move is part of T-Mobile’s effort to extend its brand beyond the mobile phone market. The offering also builds on the company’s innovative service began a year ago that allowed its mobile phone customers to make unlimited calls over their home wireless Internet networks.
T-Mobile@Home transmits calls from the phone handset through a $50 T-Mobile router to the Internet, where voice-over-Internet-protocol technology is used to complete the call. Customers are allowed to keep their existing home phone number. The $10 price tag for unlimited calling is cheaper than what competitors like AT&T and Verizon, charge for wired or VOIP access.
