Thursday July 05, 2007

T-Mobile announces Hotspot @ Home service

I was just reading this story about a T-Mobile announcement that got lost amid the iPhone hub-bub.

It seems that T-Mobile may have found a way to compete on some levels with the likes of Skype. For the grand old introductory price of $10/month, or $20/month for family plans, you can add Hotspot@Home to your service. When you do this, your cell phone calls will hand-off to wifi hot-spots when you're in range of a wifi network, seamlessly no less. And vice versa when you move from a wifi coverage area to a cellular coverage area.

Pros: Wifi calls are FREE. Who ever heard of a phone company doing anything for free?
Calls initiated on wifi are free, even if you later hand off to the cell network!

Cons: Lack of selection of phones. That's a big con for me. If it worked with my T-Mobile DASH,
I would sign up today, and never look back.

It's an interesting start though.