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June 26, 2008

Late yesterday, T-Mobile USA said it plans to offer a new service that lets customers place unlimited domestic VoIP calls from their home landline phones anywhere across the nation.

The new service is called T-Mobile @Home and has been tested in Seattle and Dallas for the past four months.

T-Mobile's new offering will cost $10 per month and is expected to roll out next Wednesday.

Unlike other major U.S. wireless carriers that have launched similar services such as AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile doesn’t have an established landline business, least not yet.

The new service will be available to customers with a T-Mobile wireless plan of at least $40 per month.

In order to access the service, users will need to buy a T-Mobile Internet router, which plugs into a home broadband connection. Customers can then plug a standard landline telephone into the router.

The T-Mobile router costs $50, and customers can keep their home phone numbers.

T-Mobile already launched an @home service earlier in January, called HotSpot@Home. The service allows Wi-Fi-enabled handsets to connect to a wireless router at home, or any T-Mobile hotspot, for unlimited wireless VoIP calling.

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Source: T-Mobile U.S.A.