[DasFox]

I've been looking at VoIP for mobile phones, and in the USA it doesn't make sense other than for making international calls.

All major cell phone carriers in the USA offer unlimited nationwide calling, so all you are doing is just using your minutes. So why would anyone call someone within the USA with VoIP mobile, when they are still going to be using up their cell phone minutes this doesn't make sense...

THANKS

[hwittenb]

Mobile calling plans in the U.S. count minutes for both incoming and outgoing calls. On the plans where you can use voip, for instance with T-Mobile Hotspot@Home, the minutes don't count when using a T-Mobile Hotspot or with a T-Mobile Hotspot router at home.

If you don't care about the minutes count it doesn't make much difference. Some people do care about the count.

[DasFox]

Originally Posted by hwittenb

Mobile calling plans in the U.S. count minutes for both incoming and outgoing calls. On the plans where you can use voip, for instance with T-Mobile Hotspot@Home, the minutes don't count when using a T-Mobile Hotspot or with a T-Mobile Hotspot router at home.

If you don't care about the minutes count it doesn't make much difference. Some people do care about the count.

Great I have T-mobile and the reps never told me about this plan, sheesh I'm still under my 14 day trial, I think I should get this...

I'll have to call T-mobile and find out about this...

THANKS

[edongp]

Originally Posted by DasFox

I've been looking at VoIP for mobile phones, and in the USA it doesn't make sense other than for making international calls.

All major cell phone carriers in the USA offer unlimited nationwide calling, so all you are doing is just using your minutes. So why would anyone call someone within the USA with VoIP mobile, when they are still going to be using up their cell phone minutes this doesn't make sense...

THANKS

Unlimited nationwide calling by cell phone carriers are much more expensive than their basic plans. Some basic plans allow inlimited airtime calling to favorite numbers or unlimited air time for incoming calls. If you have VoIP at home or office with free or flat-rate long distance and with features such as three-way calling or Call Transfer, you can place or receive calls (domestic or international) through your VoIP using a switch (see DialMate CM1003 at www.woodtel.com) and enjoy unlimited air time and free or flat-rate long distance for the price of the basic plan

[hwittenb]

Originally Posted by DasFox

I'll have to call T-mobile and find out about this...

It looks like T-Mobile Hotspot@Home is $10 a month extra on your qualifying plan. Of course you have to buy a mobile/wifi phone that works with the call hand-over technology and you would need a broadband router from T-Mobile.

Then you would be covered for U.S. calling. International calls are expensive on T-Mobile so if you need to do international calls I would use a VoIP provider that you could access with some domestic U.S. access number, someone like CallCentric, OneSuite, or anyone that you could access thru SipBroker's access numbers.