Free Cellphone Service- New York Times

[djgoku]

On 7/5/07, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
>
> It's called T-Mobile HotSpot @Home, and it's absolutely ingenious. It
> could save you hundreds or thousands of dollars a year, and yet enrich
> T-Mobile at the same time. In the cellphone world, win-win plays like
> that are extremely rare.
>
> 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.

So reading about this it seems that SMS isn't sent free over WIFI, but
just voice.

I might just have to upgrade to this plan and get the cheapest, plus
the fav 5 seems like a winning combination.