On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:47:54 +0200, Matthias Lohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I didn't find an answer to my question. I had a look at the wish list
for the FreeRunner and wanted to add a software feature but wasn't
allowed to edit the page so I'm writing it in this mailing list.
I'm german and using o2. It offers the so called "Homezone" which is a
area you can define the center. When in this area (depending on GSM
cells) you can give and receive calls with a additionaly provided fixed
line number at lower charge. So my question is: is this feature already
in the todo list? Since Vodafone and T-Mobile is offering an equivalent
service for about one or two years now I think that it would be worth to
implement this.
This seems like a feature of the network, not of the phone, and doesn't
require any special support from the phone.
And a quite strange feature, frankly. I'm not sure I understand the
advantage of having one more number that only works sometimes, while in
reality I strive for quite the opposite: having just one number that I can
always be reached at, instead of having to tell people my home/office/etc
numbers.
This location-based approach is also quite counter to the current trend:
with the modern technologies, it matters less and less where you
physically are. It started with the very concept of a mobile phone and
later continued with GSM roaming. These days some countries, like Norway,
remove area codes and establish the same rate for calling any phone in the
country. Finally, various VoIP technologies make it completely irrelevant
where you are as long as you have an internet connection.
This "Homezone" offer looks like a marketing trick to encourage people to
talk slightly more and squeeze another penny out of them; it doesn't add
any value and is, in fact, a way of selling air. It will eventually die
along with the death of the very concept of "home phone".
--
Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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