{"id":5766,"date":"2007-08-09T08:17:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T08:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tmobile-voip.html"},"modified":"2007-08-09T08:17:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T08:17:38","slug":"tmobile-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/tmobile-voip.html","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile VoIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Andy Abramson really <a href=\"http:\/\/andyabramson.blogs.com\/voipwatch\/2007\/08\/t-mobile-and-vo.html\">likes<\/a> T-Mobile&rsquo;s VoIP plan based on a potential new device the company could be rolling out soon in the US. What is the device? Something which allows FMC for the home and small business market. It allows up to two SIM cards to be embedded in it meaning it can likely support two mobile phones. It will use VoIP obviously and this is why Andy really likes it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Here are some salient points Andy makes regarding this device and T-Mobile in general:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">1) T-Mobile owns the customer already<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">2) T-Mobile can market to the customers they already have<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">3) T-Mobile already understands consumer marketing<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">4) T-Mobile already has handset manufacturer relationships<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">5) T-Mobile already has a proven network<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">6) T-Mobile already has an IP backbone network that is feeding hotspots<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">7) T-Mobile&#8217;s hotspots are proven and reliable places to make IP phone calls from<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">8) T-Mobile can open up their network to third party apps that work at home and on the go<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">While there is no product announcement here, this news (or potential news) could be good for the IP communications space and for consumers. In addition it could potentially force other wireless carriers to follow suit.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: #333333\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Abramson really likes T-Mobile&rsquo;s VoIP plan based on a potential new device the company could be rolling out soon in the US. What is the device? Something which allows FMC for the home and small business market. It allows up to two SIM cards to be embedded in it meaning it can likely support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,172,160,163,212,199,188,156,189,203,118,177,191,205,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}