[asterisk-users] OT: Samsung Sprint CDMAoIP

[schmerold@eml.cc]

Actually TMobile offers best of both worlds:
If you only concern is poor coverage, you pay no additional money, but 
your phone calls are transported via wifi.

If you want free calling via wifi, you pay $10 for a single line, $20 
for a family plan.

Eric Chamberlain wrote:
>> -----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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