telna Mobile [split thread]

inquisitor · 06-05-2009, 21:31

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Originally Posted by hkr

As for me, I do not really need SMS, but a nice feature would be to be able to send SMS as if they would come from my main home number. Receiving SMS is free in most countries I visit, so I would be able to send SMS from one card, and receive SMS on another.

What I would appreciate is SMS delivery by eMail or web and SMS forwarding. As I discussed recently with a GSM specialist, it should be possible to modify the HLR, so all SMS (including those from third-party networks) would be first delivered to some SMS-proxy. Depending on user preferences that SMS-proxy would then

deliver messages to the phone and/or
forward messages to another number (subject to charge) and/or
forward message to an eMail address and
show all sent and incoming messages on the web.

That would be a very innovative and convinient service, that would open a lot of new possibilites.

Another innovative service would be call delivery including parallel call by SIP, as Austria's A1 (A1 over IP) and Germany's solomo offer. So users could also receive calls for free if received by VoIP (VoIP and GSM would ring simultaneously). That of course will decrease your revenue at first sight, but users would of course use that VoIP-account also for their outgoing calls, which would bypass Israel and so a higher margin could be left for you.