T-Mobile wants you to talk forever. The wireless provider is examining its Talk Forever Home Phone plan in two cities, Seattle and Dallas. The plan allows unlimited U.S. calling for $10 a month.

The home user needs four components: an existing high-speed Net connection, a T-Mobile Wireless Router with Home Phone Connection, a qualifying T-Mobile wireless plan with the Talk Forever plan, and a compatible home phone. The router plugs into the user’s broadband connection, and thereupon any regular phone can be plugged into the router.

“You just plug in the router into your broadband connection and plug in your home phone into the router,” the company said on its Web site, emphasizing ease of use. The existing home phone number can be used, and any standard touch-tone phone will do.

Added to Existing Plan

For homes with several cordless phones running off a base station, the base station can be plugged into the router and any

of the cordless phones can use the unlimited service. However, T-Mobile warns, while 5.8-GHz cordless phones or traditional touch phones work fine, 2.4-GHz cordless phones “do not work well with Wi-Fi.”

The Talk Forever plan can be added to an existing T-Mobile single-line mobile plan of $39.99 or higher, or any FamilyTime mobile plan of $49.99 or higher. Caller ID, voice mail, signal forwarding, three-way conference calling, shout holding, and shout waiting are included.

“This is phase two of T-Mobile’s existing HotSpot@Home plan,” noted Bill Ho, an analyst with industry research firm Current Analysis. The HotSpot@Home plan, which offers a wireless router for home, has been out since fall 2006. It currently offers unlimited wireless calling by Wi-Fi for about $20 a month. Aside from the price difference, the user cannot employ a regular home phone in that plan.

Counter to 3G Competitors

Although the Talk Forever plan…

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