Essentially, the phone will only detect the VoIP network if it isn’t already engaged in a phone call. Now, mind you, adding Airave will also cost the user $15/month ON TOP OF any contract plan that they currently have (and it can’t be an iDEN only phone either).

So, basically, you’re looking at one majorly expensive venture from Sprint if you want to do CDMA VoIP. And knowing Sprint as well as I do (since I’m a reluctant customer of theirs), Sprint will cause Xohm users to pay through the nose as well.

Now, the alternative is for Google to pay Sprint a monthly leasing fee (essentially becoming an MVNO for Sprint), and then using their advertising to pay for the users to use their gPhones. I would expect you’d see advertising plastered all over your phone screen, but at least you’d be able to make free calls, internet searches, etc.

In the end, Sprint and Google would be the companies making all the money, either way. Why? Well, Verizon and AT&T don’t want to allow Google to own any wireless spectrum in any fashion, while Sprint doesn’t really care (to a point). Add to that the heated battles between AT&T and Google recently, and you have a virtual guarantee that AT&T won’t get a gPhone anytime in the near (or even distant) future. The same would go for Verizon. So, essentially, Google has the choice of Sprint (with a CDMA EVDO rev A network, and a soon to be WiMAX network) or T-Mobile’s GSM network (along with wifi VoIP).

LFFG

I have gotten information from more than one Sprint employee that suggests that Sprint has full intention of rolling out wVoIP [over WiMAX] along w/ CDMA, though not in the manner any of us would hope. The idea is that it may be included as apart of the Unlimited Wireless and/or Pivot service where subscribers would literally have one number to be reach at, always. You arive home [or within a certain distance of the home] , and you device switches to wVoIP from CDMA when it detects the home network.
While extremely beneficial, the real user that stands to benefit would be the home -business owner.

(This of course does not change the fact that I love their products and use them all the time)

1.) I don’t know how much it costs to break a contract, but I can’t imagine it could possibly cost more than a few hundred dollars at most… you’d really rather sell your sister than dish out a couple hundred bucks?

2.) Are you saying only if Google comes out with its own network would you sell your sister… or are you already taking offers?

3.) Does your sister know how to do laundry, cook, and clean? Is she high maintenance and require 3 meals a day? Most importantly, is she of legal age and hot?

4.) Pending #2 comes through, and you answer yes to all questions in #3, I’d like to pre-order at your earliest convenience. Thanks!