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Starting on Wednesday, July 2, T-Mobile’s Hotspot @Home will be available to subscribers nationwide. Hotspot has been in testing stages in Seattle and Dallas for a while, and now is the time to introduce it to the rest of the country. We’ve talked about it plenty, but just to go over the specs again, it’s $10 per month if you have an individual plan over $39.99 or a family plan over $49.99. You can port in your home number and plug your phone into the $50 router (one-time fee). Alternatively, you can get a new number for your house line. The linked review from CrunchGear advertises it as being similar to other VoIP providers like Vonage and Lingo, only better.

Sticking with the nation’s No. 4 carrier, it appears that T-Mo will be raising SMS rates come August 29th. They’ll join their Big Four brethren in offering rates of 20 cents per minute. If you’re looking to break your contract and don’t have a text messaging plan, that might be the time to do it.

NBC Los Angeles is launching a free service which will stream traffic camera video on select phones. It sounds like a nifty way to avoid the gridlock. There’s a similar service in New York for the bridges and tunnels, though it’s not available on mobile yet.

Have a Samsung Instinct? You can get a quick $20 from Sprint by entering their YouTube contest. Just make a video of you and your buddies with the Instinct and be one of the first 1,000 people to enter, and you get $20. Grand prize is $10,000.

Finally, BGR reports whispers that the iPhone will launch on 8 a.m. on July 11, not 6 p.m. like last year. That will be much less fun. I will be far less inclined to go watch lines of crazy people at 8 a.m. No offense, iPhone people.

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