Mobile Least Cost Routing
Written by dean on Jan 23, 2009 - 01:16 PM
Flat Planet Phone founder Moshe Maeir has bought out a very interesting system based on simplicity for the end user (the most important aspect of technical products, but one which people frequently forget).
What Flat Planet have done is to put Least Cost Routing where it should be - in the users mobile phone address book. Let the system know where you're travelling to, let it do the maths and run price comparisons against multiple providers, then update your address book accordingly with call through, call back, SIP etc end points. What's especially clever about this is the fact that you don't need to install any software on the phone, so there is no need to have a smart-phone to use it.
On his blog Moshe says:-
Pick out a contact and dial. No software to install on the phone. Exactly as it should be. I can see something like this being a big play in the current economic climate - access to multiple carriers/providers without having to think and with the guaranteed lowest call rate.
Flat Planet launch the product at the Miami ITEXPO show in February.
http://flatplanetphone.com/wordpress/20 ... -frontier/
What Flat Planet have done is to put Least Cost Routing where it should be - in the users mobile phone address book. Let the system know where you're travelling to, let it do the maths and run price comparisons against multiple providers, then update your address book accordingly with call through, call back, SIP etc end points. What's especially clever about this is the fact that you don't need to install any software on the phone, so there is no need to have a smart-phone to use it.
On his blog Moshe says:-
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| It works on all cellphones even those that are not smartphones. The account manager defines on the LCR server his costs when dialing direct and when using cost saving options such as callthru, callback, SIP over wifi/3G etc. Then all his users receive a SMS text message and synchronize their contact list with the server. The server automatically configures each contact on the contact list to dial in the most cost effective way. The process is invisible to the user. The dialing method is the same. Pick out a contact and dial. |
Pick out a contact and dial. No software to install on the phone. Exactly as it should be. I can see something like this being a big play in the current economic climate - access to multiple carriers/providers without having to think and with the guaranteed lowest call rate.
Flat Planet launch the product at the Miami ITEXPO show in February.
http://flatplanetphone.com/wordpress/20 ... -frontier/
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