Using voice plan minutes over WiFi:

[Carchidi]

Thank you iFizzgig for pointing me to the Microcell!

The existence of the AT&T Microcell verifies that the necessary Gateways into AT&T's voice network already exist on the Internet, or they will soon exist when the Microcell is fully deployed.

Then, it becomes a mere matter of firmware extensions in the iPhone to mimic the single user part of the Microcell's functionality. Might even be implementable as an app?

Given the recent NYT article, I wouldn't be surprised if the capability is already in the iPhone firmware but enabled only in those markets where the cell network is badly overloaded; just guessing.

Would anyone in NYC, or SF like to do some testing?


Thank you,

Joe Carchidi

 

[macwizard]

Wow, that's really neat! I have a lot of clients who could use one of these in their home.