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Thursday February 21, 2008
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T-Mobile's Hotspot@Home is a good deal: if you're an existing T-Mobile subscriber, you get unlimited calls over Wi-Fi for $10/month. It's enough to make you want to ditch your land line, except for the somewhat slim selection of phones. Up until now, only the (awesome) Blackberry Curve and a couple of so-so mid-range Samsungs and Nokias have worked with the service.
Enter the logorrheically named T-Mobile Hotspot@Home Talk Forever Home Phone, which is basically a Wi-Fi router with a land-line phone jack on the back. Now, you can just plug whatever land line phone you want into the H@H router and enjoy the $10/month goodness; you can even keep your home phone number separate from your cell-phone number.
The service's Linksys WRTU54g router costs $50, and they'll kick in a VTech cordless home phone for another $60. You can use any home phone you want, but you have to use T-Mobile's router. And, like most VOIP services, when you switch from a land line to TH@HTFHP you apparently lose 911 service. That's what's stopped me from switching to VOIP at my own home - the only thing we use our land line for is 911 service.
TH@HTFHP is only available in Seattle and Dallas right now, but we expect it to spread. Check out more details at www.tmobile.com/talkforever
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February 21, 2008 6:42 PM
One item to note is that you don't lose 911 service with this. When you activate an E911 address is recorded by T-Mobile and you can access 911 at anytime. It's the law.
February 21, 2008 8:35 PM
if you are a t mobile subscriber doesn't that mean that you have a t mobile cell phone, well i have no land line at all and whenever i have needed to call 911 i use my cell phone, so get rid of the landline already, that is no excuse to keep paying that high landline bill, the thing the land line is actually giving u is that when you dial 911 it automatically displays your address and you don't have to tell them if you call by landline, and in a real emergency as far as i know all or almost all cells have gps in them now and can be found within something like a 100 ft radius of where the call was placed,
February 25, 2008 4:47 PM
Great idea. Do I still get free 411 as a disabled person?
July 28, 2008 12:38 AM
How would this effect my DSL Line? I have DSL through AT&T with unlimited internet Access so will the router allow for the DSL connecter to be hooked into the routher as well?