AW: [governance] 20th century arrives in Geneva

[Roland Perry]

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19:50:42 on Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> writes
>Doesn't Free do something like this (Free, French ISP)

On mobile, or fixed...  BT does it on fixed lines in the UK.

>On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Roland Perry
><roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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