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The End Of The Landline

by dustysage

T-Mobile has announced a new service which allows home users to
abandon their expensive home phone services without losing their
phone numbers. Is the end of wired line home phone service soon
to be a thing of the past?

The offering gives the customer a wireless router for a one time
charge of $50 and a monthly fee of just $10 per month for
unlimited nationwide calling over the WiFi internet connection.
Customers simply plug their touch tone or wireless home phone
into the new router and will then be able to make and receive
calls as they once did on their landline (customer needs a
broadband connection).

T-Mobile has been trying to get customers to "Cut the cord" and
switch to cellular phones. But this service is also aimed at
eliminating the competitive advantage that its big rivals AT&T
and Sprint have had in the wired services. With "T-Mobile @Home
service", customers may finally have the financial incentive to
get rid of their landlines once and for all. To the consumer, the
service is essentially the same as what they had before, only
much less expensive.

The T-Mobile @Home service is very similar to what Vonage has
been offering for years as "Voice Over IP". Customers have been
slow to adopt the new technology, but as major carriers such as
T-Mobile begin to offer these new services in a more main stream
way, momentum for low cost home service replacement is sure to
rise.

T-Mobile has begun marketing their new service.  The deep
pockets of T-Mobile and others may just be enough to push VoIP to
a new level of consumer acceptance.  The other big factor which
may help VoIP is the sagging economy.  As consumer pockets are
pinched, lower cost solutions, like VoIP, become more and more
attractive.  If the price of gas continues to rise right along
with T-Mobile's advertising budget, this could be the perfect
storm for a whole new world of telecommunications.

Business users have been switching to VoIP and its sister, SIP,
for many years.  But only the earliest adopters and the
technically savvy have done so in the residential market.  That
looks to change very soon.  As consumers realize that VoIP offers
all the same functionality as their landline phone but with
additional options at much lower prices, the future becomes more
and more obvious.

AT&T and Sprint gave up on saving their landline business years
ago.  Both now focus on cellular phones as their primary consumer
product, along with broadband internet connections.  But they
would be wise to pump up the excitement for the true landline
replacement, VoIP, as well.  It is only a matter of time.

The phone is dead! Long live the phone!

Dustysage is the Editor of <a title="MiceChat: A Different Look
at Disney" href="http://micechat.com" target="_self">MiceChat</a>
the wildly popular Disney fan community and news site. And of <a
title="Telecom Monthly - give us a minute, we give you the month"
href="http://telecommonthly.com" target="_self">Telecom
Monthly</a>, the one stop page of information for the real top
stories regarding the telecommunications industry.

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