AW: [governance] 20th century arrives in Geneva

[Adam Peake]

Doesn't Free do something like this (Free, French ISP)

Adam



On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Roland Perry
<roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>
>> "FON in your phone", perhaps?
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>> Roland,
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>
>> 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.
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>
>> Alejandro Pisanty
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>
> 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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