T-Mobile a new VoIP player?

Andy Abramson points out that T-Mobile might be very close to become a new entrant in the VoIP marketplace.

They just filed a new home device with the FCC, a customer premise equipment that integrates two SIM cards through which you can access VoIP and mobile services.

This new device from Linksys seems to be the entry point for T-Mobile to enter the home VoIP market and compete against Vonage.

This would be a good news for the market because, as Andy points out, T-Mobile can be the right operator to play this game very well:

1) T-Mobile owns the customer already

2) T-Mobile can market to the customers they already have

3) T-Mobile already understands consumer marketing

4) T-Mobile already has handset manufacturer relationships

5) T-Mobile already has a proven network

6) T-Mobile already has an IP backbone network that is feeding hotspots

7) T-Mobile’s hotspots are proven and reliable places to make IP phone calls from
T-Mobile can open up their network to third party apps that work at home and on the go

In Italy no mobile operators have still entered this market, even if Vodafone is more aggressive than the others when it comes to FMC.

The italian telecommunications authority has just approved an offering from Vodafone through which customers can use their mobile phone at home keeping the same fixed phone number they had before. VoIP could be behind the corner.

andy abramson, luca filigheddu, t-mobile, voip