T-Mobile Agrees on Wi-Fi Calling for BlackBerry Smartphones [Wi-Fi Push Offer Available to Corporate Customers Only for Now]

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A new wireless service is available from T-Mobile but you’d have to be a corporate customer willing to play nice with a RIM phone to take advantage of it. T-Mobile is ready for a bold move in the mobile business. It will let those corporate BlackBerry owners make calls over Wi-Fi as long as they are at the office.

Does all that sound like it’s too good to be true? Well it does but if you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Everybody wins in the end: T-Mobile, your company, RIM and you! T-Mobile is trying to grab some more corporate clients and thus it needs some edge over its main competitors Verizon Wireless and AT&T. So why not support Wi-Fi-push calls especially since T-Mobile’s 3G network is still young and relatively limited in the U.S. markets.

The companies that will chose the service will be able to significantly lower their monthly T-Mobile costs. T-Mobile will definitely charge some extra fees for the Wi-Fi push service but, overall, your company will still save some money.

RIM will sell even more BlackBerry phones to the companies interested in T-Mobile’s new offer. The new Wi-Fi plan would work only for BlackBerry users which means corporate clients will have to ignore Apple’s iPhone or Android and Windows Mobile smartphones and start buying Berries instead.

In the end you win too. RIM’s phones are dependable tools and they seem perfectly designed to suit the needs of a busy person. Couple a BlackBerry with a wireless network and you’ll be able to do anything you want: make and receive calls, send emails and work on important documents, you name it and it’s almost possible.

I almost forgot to mention the Internet provider. Well it’s safe to say that your company’s broadband provider will be more than happy to upgrade your plan and install better routers in your building once you decide to go with T-Mobile’s offer.

What happens when you walk out of the building? Will the call drop? Well it won’t since it will automatically switch from Wi-Fi to T-Mobile’s network. Isn’t that something to think about? It’s sort of a femtocell solution but one that doesn’t come with a ridiculous price and a silly monthly plan to make up for a less than satisfying 3G network! Can you guess what femtocell solution I am referring to? (Hint: the carrier selling it also offers lots of dropped calls to a certain out-of-the-box phone!)