petebrown
petebrown
Here’s an idea: I receive an unwanted sales call on my phone. I open an app, which picks up the call. The app then connects the call to another, simultaneous unwanted sales call received by some other random user of the app. Both I and the other user are then disconnected from our resp... explodingcomma.com
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grayareas
grayareas

@petebrown #love

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SciPhi
SciPhi

@petebrown IIRC, phone calls are circuit-based, not packet-based so you can’t arbitrarily reconnect them without an intermediary maintaining for entire duration (Unable to disconnect) In the not so distant past small companies had to have hardware bridges in telco closet to juggle circuits to provide more extensions than lines.

In short, you probably can’t disintermediate TELCO with just an app

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petebrown
petebrown

@SciPhi Oh, fine :>

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