[PLUG-TALK] WiFi calling with Android phone without a carrier

Fernando Freire freire14 at up.edu
Fri Apr 27 01:11:35 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> I had a T-Mobile $10 for three months plan on my old Android phone so
> that I could use it as an emergency phone, but I forgot to renew it
> before it expired and T-Mobile now wants $20 for a new SIM card, plus
> another $10 for another three months. And I know I will forget to renew
> it again three months from now. Yes, T-Mobile sends out reminders, but
> they send them to the phone. I never pick up this phone because it is
> just for emergency use.
>
> The phone still works on the net because I have it connected to my home
> wireless. So I decided to see if I could make wireless calls and, Skype
> to the rescue, voilà! I just used it to call my real phone and it
> worked perfectly. My new phone recorded the call as coming from
> 1-661-380-3000 in California. I guess that's Skype's number, but I
> don't care. In fact, it might be cool to have a phone I can make a call
> on without the other party knowing who it's from.

I suppose then that your limited to making and/or receiving emergency
calls where Wi-Fi is freely available, in which case YMMV. Very cool
nonetheless.

-FF-



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