Cheaper cellular plans exist, and the Compare Plans page lists them. What no one can sell you is the thing your phone already does: calls over Wi-Fi, on your own number, without a cellular plan attached.
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile each provide native Wi-Fi Calling only to subscribers who maintain a qualifying cellular account. VoIP-Pal alleges this is a commercial condition rather than a technical necessity, and that it forecloses independent providers from selling that service on its own. Digifonica priced it at about $6.50 a month.
Third Amended Complaint ¶5, p. 2 · ¶¶80–84, pp. 21–22 · ¶154, p. 45
VoIP-Pal is a telecommunications company that has developed and operated internet telephone services since the early 2000s. Its subsidiary Digifonica ran live service infrastructure in Vancouver, London and Denmark, and sold a consumer Wi-Fi calling service on Nokia handsets under a signed agreement with Nokia.
VoIP-Pal is suing AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile under the Sherman Act, alleging it was foreclosed from bringing a standalone Wi-Fi-primary service to market. Related cases involving Apple and other platform companies are pending in the same court.
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