T-Mobile bundles VoIP with wireless for $10/month

Firing another salvo in the recently invigorated wireless war, T-Mobile will be offering some custoemrs a $10 / month VOIP service when bundled with wireless.

Its new HotSpot @Home Talk Forever Home Phone announced today will offer customers unlimited calls for $10 a month, plus the initial $50 cost of the special router required for the service. Customers must also be T-Mobile subscribers with a mobile plan of at least $39.99 a month and must also have a broadband connection at home.

In other words, it’s an Internet-based calling service, similar to what Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG - message board) offers, except this one is bundled to an existing mobile phone account.

T-Mobile acknowledges that wireline voice is a declining business but says that not everyone who has a mobile phone is ready to get rid of the traditional home phone. (from Light Reading)

This won’t be of much use to DSL customers who get a POTS line bundled whether they want it or not, but for the cable and FIOS subscribers it’s a great deal for the household that needs more than 1 phone number, and limits cell use. it’s also goign to lay to waste many VOIP and fixed line providers. Will Sprint follow?