T-Mobile USA Adds Samsung Katalyst Phone to Hotspot@Home Service
T-Mobile USA has added the new Samsung “Katalyst” slider phone to its T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service. The Samsung Katalyst operates over a home Wi-Fi network and at nearly 8,500 T-Mobile HotSpot locations nationwide. When customers leave home or a T-Mobile HotSpot, their calls are passed onto T-Mobile’s GSM network, and the same is true for passing calls from T-Mobile’s network onto Wi-Fi networks.
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T-Mobile USA launched its HotSpot@Home fixed-mobile-convergence (FMC) service in June 2007.
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