AW: [governance] 20th century arrives in Geneva

[Roland Perry]

>Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch <apisan at unam.mx> writes
>>You got to love the "crowdsourcing through client's devices" part...
>>anyone have more (industry-grade) details

>"FON in your phone", perhaps?


>Roland,

>exactly, I thought of FON, but with your telco/ISP using and managing 
>your gear to create their network. Interesting models may emerge or 
>just get the naive users to both pay and share.

>Alejandro Pisanty

It would be very easy not to charge the host-phone for this "FON-like" 
traffic, all you would need to do is have a virtual twin-SIM, with data 
calls made by the user charged to the user's account, and data calls 
made by the FON-bot charged to a different account.

There's some sort of scheme like that built into 3G, although I've never 
noticed it being implemented, where a 3G call can be "bounced off" an 
intermediate handset for the benefit of one that's in a very local 
coverage shadow.

In neither of these cases do I think the network could get away with 
charging the user for third party calls, but it will likely use up some 
of their battery power.
-- 
Roland Perry

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