Two articles showed up yesterday, one on the Android Guys blog, and covered again on Electronista. The comments to the Android Guys post were pretty funny. There are still a lot of people who love their UMA. I don't think T-Mobile helped the situation by changing names of different products because it does get pretty confusing.
"Wi-Fi Calling" is the name of the original UMA service. The original name from T-Mobile was HotSpot@Home, but that got changed to Wi-Fi Calling.
Then they launched their fixed line VoIP product called "@Home". But HotSpot@Home and @Home are not the same things.
As for the $10/month all you can call plan, I'm not 100% sure, but I think they dropped new sales of that. When T-Mobile dropped prices aggressively on unlimited plans in early 2009, it was difficult to charge extra for unlimited Wi-Fi Calling.
We have been saying for a while that T-Mobile should just make calls over Wi-Fi free, like nights and weekends. No fee, just free!
This is something available to enterprise customers today.
2 comments:
The lack of UMA on Android is the reason I refuse to leave BlackBerry. Get UMA working on Android and I'll be very interested!
UMA across the board. Period. ATT should also join. UMA is better than 3G.
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