mobile carrier switch, server side filtering, control via app or interweb
For YEARS I have been insisting mobile carriers expose PBX-like functionality to subscribers. Read about PBX in a Flash (non-commercial, open source) , FreeSwitch, other Asterisk flavors, or IP PBX. If you're paying more than $15/mo for voip and-not receiving all the power of Asterisk you are burning money.
We'll see, now that average people like yourself, no offense intended, are demanding such in common-speak.
Apps could very well interact with carrier switch software instead of lame client-side filtering: block vs ignore
Alternatively VOIP.
Use multiple DIDs like multiple email addresses. Normal people finally adopted having multiple email addresses. Use the power of PBX to filter before passing to mobile. DID (Direct Inward Dial) think: Watts IN
but what of sms? let sms die. XMPP is for texting. Parents love to discover their kids can send umpteen million messages in pure text via XMPP -- as they are mandated to purchase data from the carrier
again:
voip providers are entering the SMS forray. sms prices will necessarily drop like a broken rocket.
this will provide PBX like, server side filtering of sms. stop paying to receive spam. But replacing sms with xmpp immediately solve that problem as xmpp has mature privacy controls:
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0016.html
The carriers so FEARED XMPP that they removed the nearly-XMPP app (gtalk) from android prior to release of first android device and have suppressed it ever since. It is trivial to install an actual XMPP client now:
http://guardianproject.info/wiki/Always_Secure_Messaging
Since carriers need expose switch functionality, while expanding feature set extensively they should also
For YEARS I have been insisting mobile carriers expose PBX-like functionality to subscribers. Read about PBX in a Flash (non-commercial, open source) , FreeSwitch, other Asterisk flavors, or IP PBX. If you're paying more than $15/mo for voip and-not receiving all the power of Asterisk you are burning money.
We'll see, now that average people like yourself, no offense intended, are demanding such in common-speak.
Apps could very well interact with carrier switch software instead of lame client-side filtering: block vs ignore
Alternatively VOIP.
Use multiple DIDs like multiple email addresses. Normal people finally adopted having multiple email addresses. Use the power of PBX to filter before passing to mobile. DID (Direct Inward Dial) think: Watts IN
- provide a DID for forms especially medical
- provide a DID for unknown persons
- provide a DID for trusted emergency contact
- ** set its callerID to the DID so your phone need only whitelist one number, or no app interaction for non smart phones
but what of sms? let sms die. XMPP is for texting. Parents love to discover their kids can send umpteen million messages in pure text via XMPP -- as they are mandated to purchase data from the carrier
again:
- XMPP replaces sms
voip providers are entering the SMS forray. sms prices will necessarily drop like a broken rocket.
this will provide PBX like, server side filtering of sms. stop paying to receive spam. But replacing sms with xmpp immediately solve that problem as xmpp has mature privacy controls:
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0016.html
The carriers so FEARED XMPP that they removed the nearly-XMPP app (gtalk) from android prior to release of first android device and have suppressed it ever since. It is trivial to install an actual XMPP client now:
http://guardianproject.info/wiki/Always_Secure_Messaging
Since carriers need expose switch functionality, while expanding feature set extensively they should also
- expose RDNIS information to subscriber
- ** more sophisticated telephony apps
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