T-Mobile bans VoIP on data plans.

By Steve Biddle, in General, posted: 10-May-2006 19:18

I guess it had to happen.

T-Mobile UK have announced that VoIP is a big no no on it's new 3G data plans. They've gone as far as threatening to terminate your account and disconnect your SIM card if VoIP usage is detected!

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/09/t-mobile_bans_voip/

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Comment by paradoxsm, on 10-May-2006 23:00 , user id: 8664)

I have one thing to say... wa#####rs.

Terminating a SIMS for using a form of data on a data card but porn surfing is ok.

Comment by juha, on 11-May-2006 20:47 , user id: 16775)

Isn't the T-Mobile per minute really cheap though? Much less than VoIP rates. Not that it excuses T-Mobile, but...

Author's note by sbiddle, on 12-May-2006 09:21 , user id: 1387)

Yeah their rates are cheap but VoIP isn't just about cheap pricing it's also the features - your phone being a SIP extension from your work PBX for example.

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Steve Biddle
Wellington
New Zealand

I'm an engineer who loves building solutions to solve problems.

My interests and skillset include:

*VoIP (Voice over IP). I work with various brands of hardware and PBX's on a daily basis
-Asterisk (incl trixbox, PiaF, FreePBX, Elastix and AsteriskNOW)
-Polycom
-Cisco
-Linksys
-Patton
-Zyxel
-Snom
-Sangoma
-Audiocodes

*Telecommunications/Broadband
-xDSL deployments
-WiMAX
-GSM/WCDMA

*Structured cabling
-Home/office cabling
-Phone & Data

*Computer networking
-Mikrotik hardware
-WAN/LAN solutions

*Wireless solutions
-Motel/Hotel hotspot deployments
-Outdoor wireless deployments, both small and large scale
-Temporary wireless deployments

*CCTV solutions
-Analogue and IP

You can contact me here or by email at stevenbiddle@gmail.com

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