T-Mobile Hotspot @Home
Okay so apparently T-Mobile has launched their Hotspot@Home or T-Mobile @Home Service in Seattle, Washington. I have been waiting for well over a year now, and finally it’s out…well at least somewhere…
Basically what it is…you have a cell phone with built-in wifi and what it does is connect to T-Mobile’s server via the internet and let you call using you cell phone. In other words it’s basically a wifi phone and a cell phone combined. So when you’re using the wifi you have unlimited calling for $20/month then when you’re out and about in the car and calling from the regular GSM it’s coming out of your minutes at whatever rate plan you have. Pretty awesome if you ask me…
Think about business’ or families…Generally families take lower anytime minute family plans because they just want to stay in-touch with each other so mobile to mobile helps out. Now just imagine when they get home and turn on their wifi they have virtually unlimited calling from their own private line….how awesome is that!
In all seriousness let’s put it this way…if you have a T-Mobile Family Plan with myFaves you’re paying the following..
$69.99 - 700 Anytime Shared myFaves
$19.99 - Unlimited Messaging
$19.99 - T-Mobile Hotspot @Home
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$109.97 + tax
This is assuming you have two lines, if you have more than two lines then it’s just $9.99/line. So now you’re paying ~110 for two people so that’s 55 /each. The typically family has 3 lines on a shared plan so that’s ~120 between 3 people…roughly $40/each. Now can you tell me where can you get a deal like this? You have unlimited home calling (so pretty much a land-line which easily costs $25(Vonage)/50(Regular)+ per line) then you have the convenience of it being your cell phone so you can keep in touch (your initial reason for getting it. Cheapest plan available from any carrier is at least 10-15$ more per month). And to top it all off it’s just one number whether you want to use the @Home service or you want to use your minutes! Did I mention it uses wifi so if you have crap reception at home you can still use it!
So call me a T-Mobile “fanboy” or what you like….but the point is still made T-Mobile is rocking and is going to continue to rock through next year. 2007 is going to be very exciting at T-Mobile!
More information on the @Home service can be found here:
April 12th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I have the service turned on and have Nokia E51 which is a VOIP capable phone. I have my phone connecting to my home wireless and curising the net, but I can’t get VOIP working. I called tech support and they could not tell me what the T-Mobile server address was because they didn’t know.
I’m going to go to a store and see if I can look up this information on one of the phones they have with this service. Meanwhile if anyone knows the server address for this service please let me know. Thanks