The competition in the field of mobile service operators is becoming increasingly visible. One of the last to jump on the bandwagon has been fonYou, an MVNO whose attraction is the possibility of giving the user an identifying telephone number that does not require a SIM card. This is better explained if we tell you that the fonYou service is provided on the line, or lines, that we want to associate with our fonYou account, since the service works as a complement that will allow us to associate the services.
The usefulness of the fonYou service, which in itself is free, seeks mainly to take advantage of the discount rates that other operators offer among their offers. Let's see. Through the web of fonYou we can ask for a number, which can be associated to a maximum of three lines (fixed or mobile). That fonYou number that we acquire will be the one we call every time we want the recipient of our call to identify us. In other words: fonYou will filter our usual line with another number.
The usefulness of fonYou, seen like this, is twofold. On the one hand, it allows us to expand some of the conditions of our offers as customers of the operator that serves us, and on the other, it will help us not so happily give our main line every time we need to be identified.
Regarding the first, let's take an example. Suppose that we contract with our usual operator a favorite number with which our calls are cheaper, and even free. If we selected our fonYou number as that favorite line, all filtered calls would take advantage of the special rate.
But that is not all, since in addition, calls to filtered numbers through fonYou can also skip the connection cost (the happy call establishment of almost 19 cents). To do this, when we end a call made through the fonYou number, instead of hanging up with the corresponding key, it would be enough for us to press the "asterisk" button and dial the new call. For practical purposes, we would continue on the same call and the next connection would not charge for the call setup.
For text messages, the process will sound familiar to those who used the email function a few years ago via SMS. Whoever the recipient of the message is, we will send our SMS to our fonYou number, and in the text, we would write the following structure: recipient number, space and maximum text of 140 characters. Again, the promotions that we have associated with our sending of SMS could be linked to the fonYou number.
In the case of receiving calls, we would only have to worry about giving the fonYou number to whoever interests us. During the service registration process we will have configured up to three lines, of which we could define a favorite that would receive calls by default. The calls fonYou can also be made and received from the computer, where we can manage our user account.
It is not only the computer that we could do this. The company has in the App Store of Apple one application for iPhone from which you can manage the entire content of the fonYou account (counting high user) and benefit from all the services of this particular virtual operator.
In the case of Android mobiles, the analog application to centralize fonYou functions is called Phonecard Express. For practical purposes, it manages user data and the same service as the native fonYou application for iPhone, only that in the case of the Android utility, it has not been developed by the same company. From this link, you can configure the application to use it.
