T-Mobile's @Home Service to Shut Down Soon

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Lured in by T-Mobile’s @Home service that only costs $10, can be added to most of their wireless service plans and allows customers to make home phone calls via a router connected to the Internet? Well we may have bad news unless you already have one of these devices installed at home or in your office, as we caught wind of a rumor that the US carrier is supposedly shutting down their @Home service.

From what we learned, T-Mobile have put and end to any future investments and when the current batch of routers has been sold, they will stop offering the @Home service to new customers. Apparently, current @Home customers will not be affected as they’ll still get to use the service, but we’re yet to see if Magenta will continue supporting it as they claim.

The reasons why T-Mobile puts and end to the @Home service are pretty clear — not profiting enough off the service. But there are reasons for that. First of all the service was only available to PostPaid Perfect Credit accounts, which is why so little subscribers. Secondly, it looks like it was a bit underpriced (funny how we say that now, although we’re looking for the cheapest best), hence why T-Mobile couldn’t make a good profit off of it.

What do you guys think?