How To Make Your Friends Call You More 233
B0bReader writes, "Simply sign up to something called jajah (a VOIP service that connects real telephones) using your friend's number (mobiles included), then log in and dial your own number. Your friend's phone will ring and after they hear a brief 'Jajah is connecting your call' they will be calling you and incur all charges. As an added bonus you will quite probably receive your friend's latest voice-mail message as your own (at least on Irish networks), which you may or may not wish to hear. There is even a Jajah Firefox extension — which at the time of writing is the Firefox featured add-on — so you can do it right from your browser. This is about the best example of a bad idea, with terrible implementation, that I have seen all day. And with the wonderful publicity the Firefox page offers it should reach a wide audience in no time."
For Americans (Score:2, Interesting)
Make anyone you want call anyone you want! (Score:2, Interesting)
lovely implementation....
-Taylor
Re:Stupidity must be contagious ... (Score:5, Interesting)
U.S. system also has its advantages. (Score:4, Interesting)
The area code of where you transfer the number from (the original geographic exchange) will determine which people pay for it as a "long distance" call, but that's far less expensive for most people than European mobile airtime is, I think.
I wouldn't be willing to keep a mobile phone as my only phone number, if doing so required everyone who wanted to call me pay extra. That just seems rude. I'm quite content to pay for people's incoming calls to me, since I'm the one deciding to attach the number to a mobile, rather than fixed phone.
From the caller's perspective, the U.S. system puts land and mobile numbers on equal footing, which seems more logical to me.
No more telemarketers? Nope, bummer. (Score:2, Interesting)
Dang.
Disclaimer: If you figure out how, please don't tell me or mention my name during the interrogation.