Last week T-Mobile, the fourth largest wireless carrier in America, launched T-Mobile@Home, an offer that will provide its customers with landline phone service for 10$ a month, a cheaper then Vonage price.
The service is based on a WiFi router that lets users use special mobile phones provided by T-Mobile that can route calls over the mobile network (when out) or via WiFi when at home (using a VoIP technology called UMA that tunnels voice traffic over the Internet to T-Mobile’s backbone network), additionally T-Mobile@home customers will be able to plug their old landline phones to the router and enjoy the same unlimited local and long-distance calls included in the offer. T-Mobile@home is available to existing T-Mobile customers who have mobile subscriptions costing at least $39.99 per month and have a broadband connection at home.
Thanks to WiFi and VoIP T-Mobile can compete with AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint Nextel and their “all you can eat” plans on a lower cost basis. In Seattle and Dallas, where T-Mobile has first tested T-Mobile@home, they say that 45% of users of the service had switched from other mobile operators.
NTRglobal a Spanish company based in Barcelona and one of Europe’s biggest SaaS players with more than 12,000 customers has recently closed a €22M round of financing, one of a largest rounds of VC funding for a SaaS venture this year. Congratulations to Luis Font, CEO and co-founder of NTRglobal, who is running a very successful global business from Spain.
NRTglobal is growing faster then most of their competitors, providing on-demand solutions for remote support, access, online collaboration and IT system administration to more then 12,000 small and large corporations in 60 countries. The investment from international investors Kennet Partners and Atlas Venture will fuel NRT expansion in North America, UK, China and Japan, and will help the company further develop their NTRsupport, NTRadmin and NRTconnect products. Existing investors Debaeque and Elaia Partners also participated in the financing round.