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United States : T-Mobile Launches Un-carrier 7.0 Un-leashes Wi-Fi Worldwide [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Get ready for a whole new way to think about mobile coverage. T-Mobile today rewrote the rules of wireless again with Un-carrier 7.0 Wi-Fi Un-leashed, breaking several major announcements that together deliver coverage where no cellular network has gone before. With every major smartphone maker adopting it, Wi-Fi calling and texting has reached a tipping point, and T-Mobile is getting 100% behind it as only the Un-carrier can to deliver unprecedented coverage to its customers to places where no cellular network can reach. With Wi-Fi Un-leashed, T-Mobile announced that it s lighting up Wi-Fi calling and texting for every Simple Choice customer on every new smartphone it sells. Now 100% of new smartphones in T-Mobile stores will be Wi-Fi calling and texting capable, and 100% of T-Mobile customers will be able to get a Wi-Fi calling and texting capable smartphone if they don t already have one. To make it easier for customers to take advantage of these new capabilities, T-Mobile is opening an exclusive enrollment window in JUMP!, the Un-carrier s revolutionary upgrade program, so customers can immediately upgrade to a new Wi-Fi calling ready smartphone. Wi-Fi Un-leashed is a game changer. This is like adding millions of towers to our network in a single day, said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile. The difference between us and the traditional carriers is that they ll do everything they can to make more money off you. We ll do everything we can to solve your problems, and today, that s about uniting Wi-Fi with our data strong network for unprecedented coverage. In contrast to the carriers, who lock customers inside walled-off, proprietary networks to monetize them, T-Mobile has taken a typically disruptive Un-carrier approach with Wi-Fi Un-leashed by tapping every available technology to deliver coverage in places unreachable by any cellular network and by making it incredibly simple. There s no app to install or separate IDs to remember. Just use your phone. In addition to enabling T-Mobile customers to use any public or private Wi-Fi connection they can access like a T-Mobile tower for calling and texting, the Un-carrier has rolled out next-generation Wi-Fi calling and texting on its network. This new technology is designed to deliver high-quality HD voice, fast call setup times, fewer dropped calls and seamless voice coverage between T-Mobile s nationwide Voice over LTE (VoLTE) network and Wi-Fi with compatible smartphones. With Wi-Fi Un-leashed, all T-Mobile customers can also make free Wi-Fi calls to the United States from anywhere outside the country all using their existing T-Mobile number with no app to install and no additional IDs or numbers to manage wherever they have Wi-Fi. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |