T-Mobile quietly reintroduces free unlimited Wi-Fi calling

By on May 16, 2011 at 7:41 PM
mobile May 16, 2011

Last week a screenshot leaked suggested T-Mobile would reintroduce free unlimited Wi-Fi calls beginning on May 11th. That day passed without an announcement, but on Monday GigaOm obtained a confirmation from a T-Mobile representative that confirms customers can now place unlimited Wi-Fi calls without consuming their monthly minute allotment. Here’s what the T-Mobile rep had to say:

T-Mobile is excited to expand our Wi-Fi Calling feature, a unique and valuable service T-Mobile has been offering customers for over three years. Starting today, T-Mobile customers can add Free Wi-Fi Calling to their rate plan – at no additional charge – to place calls over Wi-Fi without deducting from their allotment of minutes. This new feature is available at T-Mobile retail stores to all customers on Even More and Even More Plus Postpaid rate plans who have Wi-Fi Calling capable handsets.

GigaOm says the feature is available on Android devices that have the pre-installed Smart Wi-Fi application, which suggests that this feature isn’t available for T-Mobile users looking for unlimited calling on UMA-equipped BlackBerry smartphones — at least for the time being.

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  • Bill

     I’d love to hear from a TMO customer that calls and asks about it.  Curious that the wording makes it seem that the svc is free but you must still ‘sign up.’  Additionally, it would make no sense to me (not doubting the validity though) that they would only do this for Android, not all UMA devices      

  • Matthew

    Hope its true its not showing on the tmobile website at the moment.

    • Anonymous

      Same here, i think its only certain phones..and they send you a text with a link. I have my mytouch 4g with WiFi calling feature feature

  • Dennis Treadway

     I have a TMO account and I checked if there was a way to sign up for this and I couldn’t find it. This makes me assume that they either don’t have this service ready yet or that the service is already active on my account. And as for why they don’t include this service on all UMA devices I would assume is a way for them to sell more android devices, or that they are just giving Android users special privileges. I hope the information helps.

  • Anonymous

    …. but they yoink 3G video calling on the Nexus S and slap more limits on their “unlimited” data plans?

    T-mo has become garbage.

  • http://profiles.google.com/claudiamarie64 Claudia Carvalho

    I have a UMA-capable BlackBerry, and two of my daughters have Androids. We all made WiFi calls last Thursday to see if the minutes used for them would be deducted from our plan minutes. Today I downloaded the minutes from my T-MO account page onto a spreadsheet and ran calculations for all three phones to see if what was left over after subtracting in-network and WiFi calls matched T-Mo’s totals for minutes deducted from the plan. I’m happy to report that they did.

  • Cash

    Why is Echo holding that basketball? Is she posing as a T-Mobile exec this episode or what?

  • ThatGuy

    That mouth needs to be put to better use 

  • Dirty Dan

    Even after seeing that pic 1000 times, I still comment to myself “I’d hit that!”

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, too bad it absolutely sucks and is totally worthless for calls. I tried many times using it but always end up turning it off.

    I LOVED LOVED LOVED UMA on Blackberry and had hoped this would be at least close to that quality. Total fail though…don’t waste your time on Wifi calls.

    • Anonymous

      Works great on my G2X. Sounds just as good as any other call on my mobile phone.

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