Editing P2p mobile carriers (section)

= 8. Redirecting inbound phone calls =

Incoming calls. In this system calls are being made from someone else’s plan which complicates receiving them back later on. What might work for this is to save a simple voice message that instructs incoming callers to visit a website if they don’t recognize the number. The owner of the plan will have software installed that only accepts calls from their contact list, so they aren’t billed for calls intended for other numbers.

The website previously mentioned could be a simple database that lets a person enter their own phone number + an unknown number to learn which of their friends set up the call. If using an eSIM, these associations should be signed to prevent impersonation.

It’s cool to imagine a calling application using this before a call. Because with that you can create a programmable, virtual switching service on top of a decentralized network. Theoretically, such a service could support any number of rules for forwarding logic, and it would be more flexible and cost-effective than using the built-in operator forwarding.

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