• Lack of a "capped service cost" plan (mitigated somewhat by monthly pre-paid service).
• Contracts.
• Lack of built-in call screening. I'd like to be able to 1) classify contacts by group, and 2) specify what group(s) can ring through, at what time(s) and/or locations.
• Visual voicemail by default. Without invoking another data surveillance provider.
• Lack of / painfulness of disabling add-on / additional fee services. My phone is not a marketplace and never fucking will be.
Honestly? I've all but given up on the idea of telephony at all. Give me email (with all its warts) or postal mail. At least the people who want to reach me have to put some effort (and cost) into it. VOIP over computer or tablet should fully replace telco phone service in fairly short order.
I'd also like to be able to sign up for an up-to-date number blocklist, run by the community and not the phone company or handset manufacturer, so that most phone spam/scams just don't ever get through.
Oh, and I should be able to tell my phone to auto block any number that doesn't have caller id.
" Lack of built-in call screening. I'd like to be able to 1) classify contacts by group, and 2) specify what group(s) can ring through, at what time(s) and/or locations."
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Features that have made me hate my phone:
• Excessively high monthly fees.
• NSA / PRISM and other forms of surveillance.
• Lack of a "capped service cost" plan (mitigated somewhat by monthly pre-paid service).
• Contracts.
• Lack of built-in call screening. I'd like to be able to 1) classify contacts by group, and 2) specify what group(s) can ring through, at what time(s) and/or locations.
• Visual voicemail by default. Without invoking another data surveillance provider.
• Lack of / painfulness of disabling add-on / additional fee services. My phone is not a marketplace and never fucking will be.
Honestly? I've all but given up on the idea of telephony at all. Give me email (with all its warts) or postal mail. At least the people who want to reach me have to put some effort (and cost) into it. VOIP over computer or tablet should fully replace telco phone service in fairly short order.
I'd also like to be able to sign up for an up-to-date number blocklist, run by the community and not the phone company or handset manufacturer, so that most phone spam/scams just don't ever get through.
Oh, and I should be able to tell my phone to auto block any number that doesn't have caller id.
" Lack of built-in call screening. I'd like to be able to 1) classify contacts by group, and 2) specify what group(s) can ring through, at what time(s) and/or locations."
This is possible with Google Voice just fyi.
Violates the next condition.
I'm a little confused by this one:
• Lack of a "capped service cost" plan (mitigated somewhat by monthly pre-paid service).
What makes this a "somewhat"? Isn't that exactly what pre-paid service gives you?
Even with a capped price-per-month plan, my options for setting specific caps on types of costs are limited.