The Peace Talk Double Phone functions both as a normal telephone (which can make calls to local and landline networks like any other phone) and as a 'street intercom'.

According to Barrister Udo Oreye, chairman and CEO of Peace Global Satellite Communications Limited, the company responsible for the service:
[I]"In a street where we have about 25 subscribers, we install a telephone at the security post, at the entrance of the street. Then, we do the billing in a configuration, in such a way that amongst the residents, they can be talking to one another as long as they want at N35 per day, that is, N1,000 in a month.
"And you may talk for 24 hours in a day and still pay N35. It is not pay as you go or pay per second or per minute".[/I]
Sun News Online

You can chat for hours with someone in the same area and only get billed 35 naira. This would be useful for a business which has several branches on the same street. What do you think?

I think it's a most brilliant and fantastic idea and I call your attention to a similar debate re free talktime on mobilenigeria. We're surely going places, we are!

Seun, what is the total cost to get a starcomms line with this feature?

Angelgirl, I don't think the phone can work with a Starcomms line. Peace Global Satellite Communications Limited is a licensed PTO on its own, just like Starcomms. I don't think there's any PTO that sells SIM cards yet.

I can't find any information about this company online, beyond the fact that they are a PTO licensed by the NCC.

Sorry, i didnt get your earlier post, i thought someone mentioned starcomms

Hmm..... thats nice. Does anyone know just how they intend to bill at such low rate?

The phone probably has the ability to operate like a walkie-talkie (direct transmission of radio waves between one phone and another)

Ahem... this topic is not about mobile phones. It does seem out of place in this section.

Or am I missing something?

Choose one of the following:
- I can give this 'Mobile Phone' forum a new name: 'Communications', 'Telephony' or 'Phones'
- I can move topics like this to the 'Technology' Section.

Which would you suggest?

The first option will be a better idea and I kinda prefer the name phones

More ideas

My People, let us no mislead ourselves and let us stop preying on each others IGNORANCE!

The facility/SERVICE is called "PUSH-TO TALK" and it comes enabled in most phones (represented by an icon, two phones placed side-by-side, in a Nokia5200 for example)

Its is FREE if and when the Provider you use, ENABLES IT ON THEIR NETWORK!

Our PTO's are just too greedy they would not enable such SERVICE on their Network but l bet that one "Naija Business man" can arrange with them for a fee, to offer the free service to our people for a fee!

We should demand that the PTO's enable this service for us, not jumping up and down to pay for it.

Of course, we should also bear in mind that it has the tendency to REDUCE the Income of the PTO's but then, somethings are just Immoral, like being forced to pay-call a Mobile just to pass info to your cousin at the next house!

My 10Cents.