T-Mobile to Launch Converged Cellular/Wi-Fi Service Nationwide
May 03, 2007
Wi-Fi Networking News' Glenn Fleishman picks up on an article by the Wall Street Journal's Amol Sharma reporing that T-Mobile will extend its HotSpot@Home fixed-mobile convergence offering nationwide — the converged GSM/Wi-Fi service has been available in Washington State since last October.
"When I tried it and wrote it up for The New York Times last fall, the roaming part of the operation — from cell to Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi to cell — wasn't up to snuff, but I like the Nokia phone I tried and Wi-Fi-based calls sounded great," Fleishman writes. "The Journal says those problems have been ironed out through handset improvements, which I believe."
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