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Are you really living in a free mobile telecommunications world? |
| | I will demonstrate that we have a technological alternative 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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< | 2. How to achieve the change?
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. |
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> | 2. Review your telecommunications knowledge and open your mind |
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< | Question: do you need a mobile company to do that for you? |
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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? |
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< | 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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> | 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? |
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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. |
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> | 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 and for free? |
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< | 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? |
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> | 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? |
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< | Ok, I grant you the amazing idea that you can use Skype or similar in a mobile device, but are not you still in a mobile network and consequently paying for the data services? |
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> | 3. My alternative |
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My alternative is to incentive the usage of Wi-Fi enabled VoIP? phones (Wi-Fi phones) under super Wi-Fi environments administered by local governments. |
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> | Foster the usage of Wi-Fi enabled VoIP? phones (Wi-Fi phones) under super Wi-Fi environments administered by local governments. |
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< | This scenario is not my creation but has been underestimated through the years particularly by the big wireless companies, on the ground that they considered it a serious threat for their revenues. |
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> | 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. |
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< | Moreover and curiously, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission have opposed to allow large scale Wi-Fi coverage respectively, by their concern for (i) competition among private and public sectors in the wireless industry and (ii) harmful interference to local TV stations. |
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> | Moreover and particularly regarding the possibility that local governments could run Wi-Fi networks, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission have opposed this scheme due to their concern for (i) unfair competition among private and public sectors in the wireless industry; and (ii) harmful interference to local TV stations. |
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| | This is the concept of turning entire cities into wireless access zones. |
| | In the financial matters, the business models of local governments may vary, but I considered that Wi-Fi coverage could be rendered for free based on the economical theory that people who are no longer spending money on a high-speed connection will be able to put that money back into the local economy and therefore, generate more incomes to the city via tax collection. |
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> | 3.2 Wi-Fi Phones |
| | Wi-Fi phones use the same wireless network technology as computers, but with the advantage that they are a lot more portable. Likewise as computers, these phones use VoIP? technology to make calls over an Internet Protocol network, instead of the ordinary Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). |
| | An important thing to bear in mind is that you need to buy a Wi-Fi phone with open protocol to not be related to a particular network or service provider in order to be able to contact with others in a free way. |
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< | 5. Advantages and disadvantages |
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| | Herein I am going to enumerate the most important advantages and disadvantages from our proposal. |
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| | - Free local and long distance calls.
- Free high-speed Internet access to the general population.
- The city will become more attractive to businesses and tourists. |
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| | - Poor quality or lost of signal because of the immense amount of traffic in the bandwidth shared. Solution: with the adequate hardware and software, a hotspot can separate and prioritize the voice traffic, treating it as a separate signal and providing better voice quality.
- Climate conditions can adversely affect the signal strength sensitivity.
- VoIP? usage limits the possibility to determine the precise location of a person who calls 911. |
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| | The time that is going to be needed to develop this alternative depends on you. You can try to cooperate to foster its development or continue living submitted to the will of the owners of mobile companies.
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