T-Mobile $10 a month service gets endorsement

The Wall Street Journal's personal technology guru Walt Mossberg has given his verdict on T-Mobile's new $10-a-month talk to any one (in the U.S.) plan. T-Mobile is trialling an unlimited home calling plan for its mobile customers for $10 a month in Dallas and Seattle using a VoIP router that takes the calls across the Internet into T-Mobile's network. As we noted [1] the success of this very attractive plan for all your home phone needs would depend on just how straight forward the service is. Mossberg's verdict: it works as well as a traditional telephone, is simple to install but because it doesn't support faxing and home security devices Mossberg does not think it marks the end of the landline. Mossberg thought the fact you have to tell T-Mobile your address so they can activate 911 services might also be an issue.

If you are wedded to a fax this may be true, but in a world of email and $120 all in one printer/scanners who needs to fax? And if you are that desperate to hang onto the 1980's why not efax? On the 911 front, again I am not convinced that having to register your address is a show stopper. It might make my mother in law baulk, but somehow I don't think she is the demographic. This is definitely targeted at you mobile-only generation. If it takes off, then be prepared for similar offers from AT&T and Verizon.

For more:
- Mossberg's video verdict [2]
- Mossberg's Column [3] (sub. req.)

Related article:
T-Mobile offers $10-a-month calling Article [1]