Despite accelerating advances in personal computing, telecommunications, service providers would have us believe we are still need the same architecture back when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, with 'dumb' devices being serviced by centralised servers. We have prototypes of mobile phone and PC-based applications that enable full user communications control based on the discovery and management services inherent in the Glynx Blackpages directory. Context sensitive personas are updated in real-time and the phone software uses these to optimise communication

