How T-Mobile Changed the Phone Industry More than Apple This Week

In the midst of all of the iPhone hype this past week T-Mobile had an announcement of their own that went relatively unnoticed. Jared saw a commercial for the new HotSpot @Home and pointed it out to me. Basically T-Mobile is now allowing calls to be made over wifi as well as their national network. The phone seamlessly switches to wifi when it is available, and all calls made on wifi are free. This allows the company to provide guaranteed perfect service whenever you are in your own house (they even give you a wireless router if you need one) or anywhere else where wifi is available.

Keep in mind that Apple could've done this with the iPhone. The iPhone is wifi enabled, and it will use wifi for all of its internet features when it is available. It will not, however, make calls over wifi. This is incredibly short-sighted from a company that claims to be hell-bent on revolutionizing the phone industry. What Apple did was make a really cool phone. What T-Mobile did was revolutionize the phone industry.