Monday, September 29, 2008

T-Mobile USA Enters Home Phone Market with New VoIP Service

America’s fourth largest wireless carrier, T-Mobile USA, has started selling its own VoIP home phone service in Dallas, Texas and Seattle, Washington, directly challenging incumbent landline carriers for the first time.

The new service, which is available exclusively to T-Mobile wireless customers, allows subscribers to connect any home phone to a special device which routes calls over the internet. It costs just $10 per month for unlimited calling, and customers can keep their existing home phone numbers, the company said in a statement.

This should make T-Mobile more appealing to customers who want to bundle multiple services with a single provider, and aren’t ready to cut off their landline phone subscriptions.

T-Mobile’s VoIP router is now available for $49.99, after a rebate, and an optional cordless phone is available for $59.99.

T-Mobile is challenging both AT&T and Verizon, which provide fixed-line service in different parts of the Dallas area, as well as Qwest Communications International, Seattle’s incumbent telecom.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

It's Now Easier To Buy A Cheap Cell Phone

Cellular phones being merely luxurious toys is fast becoming an old concept and now dismissed by the growing need for it. Cellular phones now became a very essential tool for everyone including parents who want to know where their kids are on a real time basis. Business executives do business more effectively with a multi-functional cellular phone. Eve teenagers need cellular phones. Gone are the days when cellular phones are toys to show off, now cellular phones evolve to be a necessity. Thus, cellular phones of various models and designs now flood the market. There are those cellular phones that can perform many different functions but there are also those basic telephones that come in cheap.

Because of this great need and want for cellular phones, manufacturers flood the market from cheap cellular phones to high-tech cellular phones. If you are one of those who are lucky and that you can afford high-tech cellular phones, then that is good for you, however, if you want or need a cellular phone but cannot afford high-tech cellular phones, then you may acquire a cheap cellular phone. Knowing what you need and how you need it may help you find a cellular phone with reasonable and useful features. If you are to buy a cheap cellular phone, you should never expect it to perform tasks a high tech cellular phone can give. Merely being able to send and receive calls may be enough for you to expect from your cheap cellular phone. Because you cannot afford the high definition performance of high tech cellular phone, having reasonable expectation may help you avoid throwing your cellular phone out of your window. Cellular phones especially cheap cellular phones may only give you basic communication capabilities.

Having to send and receive call which is the basic function of a cellular phone may be the only functions if can offer. Thus, you need to check the reception of your cheap cellular phone, since this is the only thing it is good for, it has to perform well enough for this basic function. Sending and receiving text messages may be available for cheap cellular phone however, only on a limited basis. If your can find a cheap cellular phone that has text messaging capacity, it will be better for you. Sending and receiving internet communication may not be available for cheap cellular phone; you do not need it as much anyway. However, if you do need to be able to send and receive message in your cellular phone from internet sites, cheap cellular phone is not going to be any good.

Cheap cell phones notwithstanding, if you can afford cellular phone plan that provide free cellular phones, you may choose a cellular phone plan that will provide free cellular phone with reasonable and advanced features. Not the high-tech cellular phone but definitely not very limited features like what you will find in cheap cellular phones. Various network companies offer this wonderful promotion and thus you may take advantage of owning a good quality cellular phone. If you can find a neat deal from a cellular phone plan, you may not need to content yourself with cheap cellular phones.

When you go to buy new cell phone, one need to research a bit in order to get enough and reasonable benefit even form a meager budget, thus you may not need to settle for a cheap cellular phone.

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