http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/ Engadget Mobile Comments for T-Mobile @Home gets friendly with your home phone http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/Jun 25th 2008 1:16AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/Jun 25th 2008 1:31AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/
What day is it? The time? What planet are you from?

Thanks.]]>Jun 25th 2008 7:05AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/
**** EXCEPT **** (and being a die hard tmobile fan, even to the point of suffering through EDGE speeds while i see iphones and instincts and EVDO-A or HSPA data every where else BUT... i digress)

You cannot send or receive faxes with this service.

You cannot use a modem. (or for that matter, the phone jack in the back of your sattellite box that saves you 5 bucks a month).

It looks real good on paper until you start asking the questions that follow your actual real usage of said phone line.

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http://www.t-mobileathome.com/]]>Jun 25th 2008 4:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/Jun 26th 2008 7:51PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/As for the saving $5 a month having your satellite box plugged in? Duh. So you're gonna spend $40 a month to save $5? Seriously? Anyway, if you were to modernize a bit, you'd find that Dish Network provides you an ethernet jack on the back of their models as an alternative. Alarm companies now offer a cell backup. TiVo also has an ethernet connection.
For faxes, try an online service such as efax, etc. Nominal monthly fee and incredible convenience (i.e. getting faxes EVERYWHERE via email!).
This is a great product and most naysayers don't understand the gravity of this innovation. I just hope they don't botch the advertising, like they did with Jimmie and HotSpot@Home.... THAT was a nightmare....]]>Jul 1st 2008 9:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/Jul 1st 2008 9:39PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/
as a shopping addicts for all new things electronic/technical, I'm still paying for an unlimited plan for a regular landline, no matter how many times I have been tempted by VoIP plans. GETTING RID OF the physical LANDLINE? NO WAY!!

WHY? You buy what you pay for. Sure, no hassal, crystal clear, blah blah... the dull speach for keeping regular landline service. The bottom line is:

During the summer 2003 power outage of New York tri-state, all A/C plugged phones died, as well as mobile signals. Because I had a landline (w unlimited nationwide plan) in my house, and a wall-mount stand-alone kitchen phone, I was able to call back relateives in other states worried sick to hear back from me, and spending dark hours alone in my house without worrying about potential looting in Manhattan since I could call 911 anytime.

Well, don't depend your life completely upon digital techs, never cut that physical landline or toss away that primative stand-alone corded phone. ]]>Jul 8th 2008 3:01AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/
I cannot add a 6th line to a Family Plan, so to get the Home service, I would need to start a new account of $39.99, or get 2 Family Plans and put 2 Cell lines on one, and 3 cell lines on another.

So, in the end, I would end up paying $40 more a month and have 2 Family Plans.

Sounds like they need to make some changes to their billing system rules.....]]>Jul 9th 2008 1:43PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/
With this new service though, it's great. Supposedly, 911 can still find me if I'm incapable of giving my address. We downgraded our service plan from 1000 minutes to 700 minutes and added this home phone service, so it should be a wash as far as cost is concerned.

It works great and I totally love it. I know, I won't have a home phone when the electric goes out or if my internet goes out, but that's a rarity.

The benefits of this are terrific. I think it's great they are $15 a month chaper than vonage too...giving competitors a run for their money that's for sure.

A long time Tmobile customer (since 2000!)]]>Aug 5th 2008 9:13PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/06/25/t-mobile-home-gets-friendly-with-your-home-phone/Sep 19th 2008 12:57AM