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e-phone
Phone and SMS identity based on E-mail rather than SIM card. | |
Want to get a new plan for your phone? Go and register
your e-mail address with a telco. When someone dials
your e-mail on their phone, they ring to you...
Not only that -- you would also be able to send and
receive SMS to your e-mail, and verify on services on-
line, without the discrimination
in some countries,
where you cannot enter your phone number, because it
doesn't match your country initial digits.
... but above all, in the modern days, when we have
nice e-mail addresses with informative domains and
names, who
needs that number anymore?
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What, so when you want to talk to someone, the phone
will record what you're saying, encode it as an mp3
and email it as an attachment to the person you want
to talk to, who will then do the same, and then
you'll do that again to respond, and so on - all
over wifi, presumably, as this phone has no SIM card? |
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No, [hippo], you misinterpret! I am left with nothing but to
add more information to description of the post :) |
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The e-mail address will be used instead of SIM card for
identity verification, making the SIM cards and phone
numbers obsolete. That's the point... |
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Now, you could register with multiple telcos in different
countries, and the nearest telco responds, so you don't
have to change numbers for cheaper plans when moving
from country to country. |
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And if the call is going to be international, you get to select
between using the phone system to get a high quality
connection for $$ or risk a bad connection with VOIP... |
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// The e-mail address will be used instead of SIM card for identity verification, making the SIM cards and phone numbers obsolete. That's the point... // |
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So how do the Telcos make money from this ... ? |
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It's just WiFi roaming. Unless someone can be billed, GSM/WCDMA providers aren't going to be specially interested in this. |
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Skype via WiFi hotspot is Baked and WKTE. |
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