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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 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: >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > > -- > Eric Chamberlain, CISSP > Chief Technical Officer > Voxilla - http://voxilla.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
