[asterisk-users] OT: Samsung Sprint CDMAoIP

[Eric Chamberlain]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jason Parker
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:49 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Samsung Sprint CDMAoIP
> 
> 
> If you're referring to T-Mobile's "HotSpot at Home" service, it's actually
> $20
> per month, per line on the account (unless it's changed very recently).
> 
> As far as how it works on T-Mobile, I recently had some questions answered
> by
> them about that..  They use UMA over wifi, and it does automatic switching
> between the wifi and the gsm towers (ie; your call stays up).
> 
> Quote from the tech I talked to:
> "HotSpot at Home does not use a VoIP protocol, as the voice data is
> transferred from the Internet directly to our UMA Gateway and then
> through our regular Mobile Switching Centers."
> 
> Pretty interesting stuff.
> 

Interesting from a marketing and sales perspective that one can get people to buy a box, pay for the bandwidth used by the box, and then pay an extra $20/month per phone, all for coverage problems the carrier should address.

But then again these carriers have managed to convince people to pay close to a thousand dollars per megabyte for SMS messages.

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Eric Chamberlain, CISSP
Chief Technical Officer
Voxilla - http://voxilla.com/