T-Mobile-At-Home: Landline-To-Wireless Migration

Five days ago, T-Mobile USA began a trial run of a service that could possibly allow users to make calls from home via cell phone for a monthly flat rate. Included in the project is the nation’s fourth-largest wireless service provider, which will then equip customers in states such as Oregon with special routers to be placed in their homes.

And how is this significant to the current communications industry? Well, for one, if this trial proves to be successful, it just may very well open the floodgates on landline-to-wireless migration. With data supplied, it is found that as of today, about 7% of Americans use their mobile as their primary phone because it is supposedly cheaper than a landline. That number is expected to rise up to 40% in a span of ten years, at least according to the calculation of Craig Mathias, Farpoint Group‘s president of wireless consultancy. After all, it really would be more practical if you make calls with your mobile if you are being charged on a flat rate, say, $5 a month, as opposed to landline’s rate of $30.

Of course, it also pays to have better quality of the service. Through the T-Mobile-At-Home Service, it is their goal to improve wireless signals. At present, that appears to be one of the major concerns of wireless consumers as they often have to deal with poor call quality and dead spots.

If all goes well with this dry run, we just might soon witness the next big evolution to hit the communications industry.

Via businessweek

Five days ago, T-Mobile USA began a trial run of a service that could possibly allow users to make calls from home via cell phone for a monthly flat rate. Included in the project is the nation’s fourth-largest wireless service provider, which will then equip customers in states such as Oregon with special routers to be placed in their homes.

And how is this significant to the current communications industry? Well, for one, if this trial proves to be successful, it just may very well open the floodgates on landline-to-wireless migration. With data supplied, it is found that as of today, about 7% of Americans use their mobile as their primary phone because it is supposedly cheaper than a landline. That number is expected to rise up to 40% in a span of ten years, at least according to the calculation of Craig Mathias, Farpoint Group‘s president of wireless consultancy. After all, it really would be more practical if you make calls with your mobile if you are being charged on a flat rate, say, $5 a month, as opposed to landline’s rate of $30.

Of course, it also pays to have better quality of the service. Through the T-Mobile-At-Home Service, it is their goal to improve wireless signals. At present, that appears to be one of the major concerns of wireless consumers as they often have to deal with poor call quality and dead spots.

If all goes well with this dry run, we just might soon witness the next big evolution to hit the communications industry.

Via businessweek