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> | A proposal to live in a free mobile telecommunications world |
| | -- By DiegodelaPuente - 29 Sep 2011 |
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> | 1. Open your mind and start the revolution |
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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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> | By the end of 2010 there were approximately 5.3 billion mobile subscribers according to the International Telecommunication Union. In our world, this means that mobile network owners have an immense power and control over the daily life of millions who must submit to the will and rules of Carlos Slim or his colleagues. Therefore, I considered that a change of the scheme is needed and technology advances are the way to achieve it. |
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> | Unfortunately, since there are diverse economical and political interests related to this industry, mobile network operators and the U.S government have opposed to this change through the years and will continue to do so this journey is not going to be easy. |
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The first step to reach this objective is to understand that the world will not collapse when the network operators loose their power and that you are going to be able to make your mobile phone calls as always and maybe with better quality or other advantages. |
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> | Technological improvements have forced mobile operators to start using Voice over IP (VoIP? ), also called Internet Telephony in order to process phone calls. In this scenario voice is transformed into data packets that travel through the Internet to its destination where it is change back to voice. This is the same technology used by Skype or Google Talk to perform their calls between computers or other devices. |
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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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> | In that order of ideas, it might be a good question to ask why does we need a mobile operators if we are performing phone calls via Internet without their networks? Can you imagine having the possibility to be connected to a giant Wi-Fi network and be able to use a phone everywhere by just paying a minimum fee for the Internet access? |
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< | I will demonstrate that we have technological alternatives to change the mobile telecommunications industry and break our actual conception of the mobile environment. Unfortunately, because there are diverse economical and political interests related with this industry, mobile companies and the U.S government have opposed to this change through the years, as you will discover herein. |
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> | Foster the usage of Wi-Fi enabled VoIP? phones (Wi-Fi phones) under super Wi-Fi environments. My intention is to gather technological improvements for a bigger purpose. Unsurprisingly, mobile network operators have underestimated this idea through the years, because they considered that it would represent a serious threat for their revenues. I consider this is a threat for their existence as we now know. |
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< | You might think that the process of a mobile phone call is 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 for each call and so on until finally, it addressed its destination. Do you need a mobile company to do that for you?
Another way to process a mobile phone call is by using Voice over IP (VoIP? ), also called Internet Telephony. In this scenario voice is transformed into data packets that travel through the Internet to its destination where it will transform into voice again. Does this sound similar to what Skype does?
Now that you understand that almost everything in telecommunications is data transportation and fortunately, nowadays almost everyone is used to perform interactive conversations from a computer through Internet; can you imagine having the possibility to be connected to a giant Wi-Fi network and to use a phone everywhere by just paying a minimum fee?
It is true; I can grant that Skype or similar can be use in mobile devices, but in this case you are still under the mobile companies’ control and consequently subjected to the data services payments?
3. My proposal
Foster the usage of Wi-Fi enabled VoIP? phones (Wi-Fi phones) under super Wi-Fi environments. My intention is to gather technological improvements for a bigger purpose. Mobile companies have underestimated this idea through the years, because they considered that it would represent a serious threat for their revenues.
3.1 Super Wi-Fi networks |
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| | This is the concept of turning entire cities into wireless access zones and could be achieved by means of wireless mesh networks (WMN). A mesh in this concept is a series of radio transmitters that are able to communicate with at least two others, creating a cloud of radio signals through the city. |
| | On the other hand, Freedom Box project is in full development through the promotion of their creators and in addition to the benefits listed for municipal wireless networks, among others, also avoids access and tracking user information and there is only a one-payment requirement to buy the equipment and not a monthly payment for the service. |
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| | Wi-Fi phones likewise as computers use VoIP? technology to make calls over an Internet Protocol network, instead of the ordinary Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), but with the advantage that they are a lot more portable.
Particularly because of the rejection from mobile companies, diverse and massive production of pure Wi-Fi phones has not arrived to the markets. Nonetheless, you can buy a Linksys, Locktec or ZyXEL? phone with an open protocol for approximately US$90.00. |
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| | The two most important advantages and disadvantages from my proposal are the following.
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| | - VoIP? usage in phones limits the possibility to determine the precise location of a person who calls emergency services. |
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| | For the reasons stated above you have identified that freedom does not exist in today’s mobile telecommunications world.
Unless we try to change it, this situation would remain for many years, because it favors mobile companies power and incomes increase. You can try to cooperate to achieve my proposal or continue living submitted to the will of the owners of mobile companies. That is your choice. |