According to Network World, T-Mobile recently announced “T-Mobile @Home” which allows you to buy VoIP-to-the-home service from T-Mobile for $10/mo – assuming you don’t mind the $50 router and the 2 year lock-in contract.
The interesting part of the article was that T-Mobile released a study that 97% of customers who had a landline service then got a VoIP service – dropped the landline service completely. The implications are staggering – traffic once reserved for the land lines will now be thrown in with the rest of the Internet mix. I’m not quite worried about capacity but rather about latency – will latency on the network remain low enough for a VoIP system to remain superior to the traditional phone network even as it grows?
I’m also wondering what to do with all those miles of obsolete land-line copper cable running to all the houses. Hmm…
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