The new home-phone service is an addition to T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home wireless product, which lets customers make unlimited cell phone calls at home on a Wi-Fi Internet
connection, for a monthly charge of $10 on top of a regular cellular bill. The move comes the same week three of the nation's largest cell phone companies announced unlimited mobile calling for a
flat $100 monthly fee.
Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg calls T-Mobile's new service "disruptive." It will put added pressure on phone companies such as AT&T and Verizon that have already been dealing with consumers' itch to ditch their landlines. About 12% of consumers in a recent Jupiter survey said they expect to drop their land-line service in the next 12 months
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