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VOIP Meets Cell Phones

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the loophole-exploitation dept.

pnutjam writes "This looks really interesting. It looks like this company, Xcelis, has a bunch of cellphones hooked to VOIP equipment. Basically you pay them and if you have free in-network calling on your phone you call their phone and then dial out to whomever you want. Voila, unlimited calling to anyone."

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  1. Can you here me NOW? by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 4, Funny
    Great

    So you can have the underwater sound of a regular cellphone, combined with the intermittent stuttering of VoIP.

  2. Re:Pause Feature by DarkHelmet · · Score: 5, Funny
    Let me try and adapt the form to the phone companies. It's a joke... laugh...
    Your post advocates a

    (x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante

    approach to changing the phone system. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
    (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other
    flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

    (X) Most phone users will not put up with punching letters on a keypad (SMS anyone)
    (X) Phone companies will not put up with it
    ( ) The police will not put up with it
    (X) Requires too much cooperation from phone companies
    (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
    (X) Many users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers

    Specifically, your plan fails to account for

    (X) Foreign countries
    ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
    (X) Asshats
    (X) Jurisdictional problems
    (X) Public reluctance
    ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
    (X) Susceptibility of protocols to attack
    ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
    (X) Technically illiterate politicians

    and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

    (X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
    been shown practical
    (X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
    ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
    ( ) Killing phone companies is not slow and painful enough

    Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

    (X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
    ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
    ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
    house down!
    --
    /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
  3. VOIP?? That's kid's stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Check THIS out: http://bobanddavid.com/cinco.html

    CINCO!!