"home zone" functionality

Dirk Deimeke dirk at deimeke.net
Thu Apr 17 10:25:13 CEST 2008


Hi,

> I'm german and using o2. It offers the so called "Homezone" which is a
> area you can define the center. When in this area (depending on GSM
cells)
> you can give and receive calls with a additionaly provided fixed line
> number at lower charge. So my question is: is this feature already in the
> todo list? Since Vodafone and T-Mobile is offering an equivalent service
> for about one or two years now I think that it would be worth to
implement
> this.

your Homezone depends on the antenna which you can reach at home. Every
phone call over this antenna (it may be you need several antennas to cover
the radius of your homezone) is cheaper.

Some phones read the cell id and display a home symbol if the cell belongs
to your home zone.

Dirk





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