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Are you really living in a free mobile telecommunications world?
-- By DiegodelaPuente - 29 Sep 2011
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< | According to the International Telecommunication Union by the end of 2010, approximately 5.3 billion persons had something in common: they were mobile subscribers. |
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> | According to the International Telecommunication Union by the end of 2010, there were approximately 5.3 billion mobile subscribers. |
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> | (i) The majority of the globe habitants depend excessively on mobile services; and |
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> | (ii) Owners of mobile companies have an immense power on the daily life of millions and consequently, mobile subscribers have to submit to the will and rules imposed by Carlos Slim or other mobile networks owners. |
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Subscribers have to submit to the will and rules imposed by Carlos Slim or other mobile networks owners? I disagree. I consider that freedom really exists only when you have a choice. |
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> | Could technology help free ourselves from mobile companies? This is an adventurous question, because for the most part since Bell and Edison times persons have become dependent on telecommunications companies to render fixed and afterwards mobile services. |
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Technology can help us replace cell phones and avoid depending on mobile telecommunications companies to render the service.
2.2 Objective
Demonstrate that you have a choice by means of a concrete technological alternative to change the actual mobile telecommunication industry and benefit from it.
3. How to achieve the change?
3.1 Review your knowledge about how mobile services are rendered |
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2.1 Review your knowledge about how mobile services are rendered |
| | Without having much technological knowledge you might think about it as the simple sequence of speaking to a phone, afterwards the voice is send to the closest antenna, then to the next antenna or pipe through dedicated circuits or channels for each phone call and finally to the mobile device of person to whom you want to speak.
Question: do you need a mobile company to do that for you?
There is another technological way to do that and is called Voice over IP (VoIP? ) or Internet Telephony. Voice is transformed in data packets and they travel through the Internet to their final destination, where they will transform again into voice. Does it sound similar as something called Skype? |
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| | Now you understand that almost everything in telecommunications is data transportation and fortunately you are used to have interactive conversations through a PC that may be connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi or other source of Internet access.
Question: can you imagine being connected to a giant Wi-Fi network and having the possibility to use a mobile phone to speak to others for free? |