Sprint is testing a fixed wireless device that will let customers to use the PCS wireless network to replace land-lines from their local telco. The plain-looking box Phonecell SX5T essentially serves as another mobile phone on your plan, but drops a regular dial tone to devices plugged into it, so that units like TiVos or fax machines or any other less-than-modern device that can’t get its data exchanged via Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
It’s only in five cities right now, but it sounds like a good intermediate step to ditching POTS service entirely.
Sprint testing fixed wireless solution [MobileTracker]
