<story><title>India’s missed call culture</title><url>http://gigaom.com/mobile/indias-missed-call-mobile-ecosystem-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>someperson</author><text>There is a HUGE market here for someone to create a free texting app that encodes each character in the length of time before the call has been ended (like morse code, but with no dots, only dashes).&lt;p&gt;The application would abstract the handshake+message delivery away and hopefully would find ways to reliably send a character in hundred milliseconds, instead of seconds.&lt;p&gt;If the application becomes successful, you would have live with being the one to make carriers the world over to begin charging when a phone BEGINS ringing, instead of a successful connection. (or remove the loophole in another way, like charge on the 3rd attempt.)&lt;p&gt;Alternatively don&apos;t send individual characters, from a single call the user can choose one of 5-10 default messages (preset or mutually-agreed-upon-inadvance) like &quot;OK&quot; &quot;Be there in 5 minutes&quot; &quot;No&quot; etc via the length of a single call using a mobile phone application.&lt;p&gt;You can have entire conversations via mobile for free :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eru</author><text>&amp;#62; If the application becomes successful, you would have live with being the one to make carriers the world over to begin charging when a phone BEGINS ringing, instead of a successful connection. (or remove the loophole in another way, like charge on the 3rd attempt.)&lt;p&gt;They could also start messing up your careful timing.  Then it would be much harder to convey information.</text></comment>
<story><title>India’s missed call culture</title><url>http://gigaom.com/mobile/indias-missed-call-mobile-ecosystem-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>someperson</author><text>There is a HUGE market here for someone to create a free texting app that encodes each character in the length of time before the call has been ended (like morse code, but with no dots, only dashes).&lt;p&gt;The application would abstract the handshake+message delivery away and hopefully would find ways to reliably send a character in hundred milliseconds, instead of seconds.&lt;p&gt;If the application becomes successful, you would have live with being the one to make carriers the world over to begin charging when a phone BEGINS ringing, instead of a successful connection. (or remove the loophole in another way, like charge on the 3rd attempt.)&lt;p&gt;Alternatively don&apos;t send individual characters, from a single call the user can choose one of 5-10 default messages (preset or mutually-agreed-upon-inadvance) like &quot;OK&quot; &quot;Be there in 5 minutes&quot; &quot;No&quot; etc via the length of a single call using a mobile phone application.&lt;p&gt;You can have entire conversations via mobile for free :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>namank</author><text>Would you be able to do this at the app level? Maybe I don&apos;t know about it enough but I&apos;m thinking you would need to have direct access to the radio to encode the paging signal. Then wouldn&apos;t the base station have to understand our different tones so it can preserve them in order to pass them on?&lt;p&gt;cool idea tho</text></comment>