Optimizing mobile cost of answering incoming anchored call through local number pick up

摘要

A proposed method and system allow customer to avoid long distance charges that arise when user receives a call when he/she is outside of his home network. We rely on fact that in Cellular network the call placed from the terminal that outside home network to local number will not be a subject of long distance tariff. A method and system employs a mobile phone by which the user instead of answering the call that comes through users' personal DID will reject it and then make a call to local number (pickup number). Server will keep the initial call and complete the connection when it receives incoming call from user phone. As an additional option instead of sending call to the device, server sends notification to the device and device will initiate call to local number. Notification can be send using push notification, SMS or another mechanism.