T-Mobile Plans to Add 20Mbs Mobile Broadband in UK by 2010 for £8.50 per month

[mandy]

The UK's home broadband market is being shaken up at the moment...Now, T-Mobile has waded in by threatening to replace the landline altogether - both for voice calls and broadband data services.

T-Mobile's plans involve using HSDPA to ramp up the data transfer rates of its 3G service from the current 384kbps to 1.8Mbps in 2006, and then onto 20Mbps by 2010. Better still, the service is completely open, and is offered at a flat rate of just £8.50 ($15) per month for unlimited use...

full article: http://mobilementalism.com/2006/04/30/t-...ne-phones/

[mandy]

update: T-Mobile has banned 3rd party VoIP telephone service and instant messaging from its Super 3G mobile phone service in the UK

T-Mobile bans VoIP from super-3G service
Observers doubt the policy is sustainable - meaning T-Mobile may be planning its own VoIP client


Tony Lock, chief analyst at Bloor Research, believes that the launch of a T-Mobile VoIP client is a possibility...

Lock cast doubt on the sustainable viability of a mobile operator banning VoIP from its network. "I think that eventually, if there's customer demand for this, it will happen," Lock said. "Other organisations will come along allowing VoIP. Who do you think is going to win?"...

full article: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/3...682,00.htm

related topic:
The VoIP Backlash: New Software Lets Phone Companies Block VoIP Calls
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...931.0.html