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

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Fri Apr 27 01:23:56 UTC 2012


On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:11:35 -0700
Fernando Freire <freire14 at up.edu> dijo:

>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.

Hmm. It never occurred to me what would happen if I needed to receive a
call on this phone. How would someone call it? 



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