IconDial, Here’s What You Should Do To Keep The Service Alive

by Jason Wilk on September 29, 2008

  • Go to IconDial.com and you will see a keypad that let’s you dial any number in the world and have a free 3 minute convo.
  • They support the service by playing a 3-5 second advertisement before your call takes place. They would like to expand the service to 15-20 minute calls.
  • What’s wrong here?
    • This is like having a free public pay-phone on the Internet with complete anonymity.
    • This is a privacy and telecom industry shutdown waiting to happen.
    • It’s also a prank callers dream
  • Here’s what to do:
    • Make this an emergency service that users can subscribe to for $2 a month is case they lose or are unable to access a phone and need to get a hold of people for free.
    • Limit calls to 2-3 minutes and integrate a call ID if possible.
    • Market it to today’s generation who doesn’t have a land line and would love to have this for quick home calls when they don’t have their mobile.
    • Also works great for travelling. Jump into an internet cafe an make a 3 minute call.
    • This way, you may score a couple hundred thousand users worldwide, producing solid subscription revenue, still make some money off the 3-5 second ads and privacy issues will be remedied.

A tiny rec from: TechCrunch

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  • BrianWest
    If the pranksters get to this first, theyll ruin it. Hopefully they still use that other VoIp thing that was going to get shut down or did or whatver.
  • MarcTheMan
    I could have used something like this so bad on my trip. It needs to be more protected though
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