However, provided the restaurant has Wi-Fi, you could still receive calls made to your regular phone number — if you use the new service from Libon, called Reach MeBARCELONA — It’s a familiar sight in Barcelona: You’re at a restaurant (for some reason a great deal of them here are located in basements) and your cell phone is showing exactly zero bars.

Orange-owned Libon’s pitch from Mobile World Congress was short and simple: Even without reception, you’ll still be available on your phone, thanks to a little VoIP magic. And if you don’t like the idea of being always available to everyone, you can have the call redirected to voicemail as well, based on who’s calling.

Read More