Verizon Launching App Store For VoIP Hub

Verizon Wireless is looking to bring mobile applications to customers' homes, as it's planning to launch an over-the-air store for its VoIP Hub.

The aggregation appear the Hub in January and it can accomplish voice-over-IP calls with the customer's broadband connection. The accessory can additionally accelerate account and video messages, as able-bodied as accelerate absolute SMS letters to Verizon's cellular subscribers.

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The Hub has a ample blow awning that's abounding with icons that can let the chump analysis the acclimate or stocks with the bang of a button. The aggregation is attractive to aggrandize the functionality of this home screen, and it will accessible it up for developers after this year to actualize fresh programs like Internet alive radio.

The move shows the growing accent of adaptable apps in the telecommunications space. Apple absolutely brought adaptable apps to the beginning with its App Abundance for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and it will anon accept added than a billion downloads in beneath than a year. This success has not gone disregarded by Apple's competitors, and anon every above belvedere will accept an over-the-air app store.

It's cryptic if an app abundance is abundant to accession the acceptance amount of the Hub, as it's attempting to use the VoIP accessory to advice it achieve bazaar allotment in the abbreviating home buzz market. The Hub has a $34.99 account account fee, but it cannot accelerate letters to non-Verizon corpuscle phones. The aggregation said it's attractive to do abroad with this brake in adjustment to accomplish the accessory added appealing.

Verizon isn't the alone adaptable carrier authoritative a move for the home buzz market, as T-Mobile afresh formed out a landline-replacement service. T-Mobile's @Home is a amalgam account of cellular and VoIP, and it's priced at $10 a month, in accession to a account corpuscle buzz fee.