T-Mobile hot spot hopping phone

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/technology/circuits/05pogue.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=9b1df670af399cec&ex=1183780800&pagewanted=all
  or
http://tinyurl.com/376cyd

Here’s the basic idea. If you’re willing to pay $10 a month on top of a regular
T-Mobile voice plan, you get a special cellphone. When you’re out and about, it
works like any other phone; calls eat up your monthly minutes as usual.

But when it’s in a Wi-Fi wireless Internet hot spot, this phone offers a huge
bargain: all your calls are free. You use it and dial it the same as always — you
still get call hold, caller ID, three-way calling and all the other features — but
now your voice is carried by the Internet rather than the cellular airwaves.

  AND

O.K., but how often are you in a Wi-Fi hot spot? With this plan, about 14 hours a
day. T-Mobile gives you a wireless router (transmitter) for your house — also
free, after a $50 rebate. Connect it to your high-speed Internet modem, and in
about a minute, you’ve got a wireless home network. Your computer can use it to
surf the Web wirelessly — and now all of your home phone calls are free.

Wish I would have read about this before I reupped my Verizon contract two weeks ago.

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   Michael Rasmussen, Portland, Ore, USA
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