Wakeup Call Service
I am hoping to see an free international online wakeup call service hosted in a .com website. The way it works is, I go to a website, login and provide the phone number, time/date for a wakeup call and just submit, it should call me at the specified time.
After I thought about it, I googled to find out similar service offerings but they do charge on a per call basis or monthly basis and are restricted to US and Canada.
May be we can overcome this location barrier if we implement some SIP servers around the globe and offer it for free. Well, offering it for free might sound good, but there certainly will be some expenses to atleast make these automated calls. But if we make it free, there will be many visitors. More the visitors, brighter chances to get ads on the site.
But having all kinds of ads (like Yahoo) doesnt make sense. More targetted ads will be good. For example, when the user gives his telephone number, if this service can automatically track if he has internet connection etc (and provide better rates) for each number it’ll be a killer targeted ad.
I hope to see someone launching such service soon.
Raju
January 23rd, 2007 at 6:05 am
Seems too complicated for a wake up call. At least if I just login, the phone number must be automatically known as it wont (normally) change between wakeup calls.
Why not just use the Alarm (or Reminder for wakeup calls giving dates(!!) ) in your cell-phone. Even those which are not so ideal have an alarm.