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[–] HoneyNutStallmans ago 

You want to talk to someone across the country?

Well you'll need to pay out the ass to be a part of this ancient telephony system!

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[–] luckyguy ago 

Yeah, ancient and then made modern. Let's just scrap the thing.

I'd love to find an intensive model where part of the fee goes to the connectivity provider of a wifi that you can gain access to if you have a key. It wouldn't "free" but it would be free as in access. That would reduce GSM's need to know you're exact location and velocity in order to operate and make it 100 fold more reliable that you can get on a wifi. It would be cheap too because the distance through air would be way less. We're talking about a cafe making 2 cents off of your call. When it all adds up its really going to be cheap.

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[–] HoneyNutStallmans ago 

If payment channels for Bitcoin goes through (you can transfer money as needed without actually sending anything until the transaction is finalized or a set time period has passed; you only pay the network fee on the final amount) there's a really interesting use case for pay-as-you-go phone/wifi service. The only problem is that it works well with one provider because you have to open a payment channel for each party.