Providing Notifications of Call-Related Services

A computer program product for use in relation to a first near-end terminal, the first near-end terminal being a mobile user terminal operable to establish voice or video calls with one or more far-end user terminals over a network, the computer program product being embodied on a computer readable storage medium and comprising code configured so as when executed on one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• detecting when the first near-end terminal is within a relative proximity of a second near-end terminal available to provide a call-related service in relation to one or more of the voice or video calls;
• based on said detection, outputting a notification to a user of the first near-end terminal notifying the user of the call-related service;
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• in response to said detection, storing a configuration setting configuring the first near-end terminal as having the second-near end terminal identified for later provision of the call-related service.

A computer program product for execution on a first user near-end terminal, the first near-end terminal being a mobile terminal operable to establish packet-based voice or video calls with one or more far-end user terminals over a network, and the computer program product being embodied on a computer readable storage medium and comprising code configured so as when executed on the first-near-end terminal to perform operations comprising:

• detecting when the first near-end terminal is within a relative proximity of a second near-end terminal available to act as a media end-point for one or more of the voice or video calls established via the first near-end user terminal;
• when the first and second near-end terminals are detected to be within said proximity, automatically outputting a notification to a user of the first near-end terminal, the notification notifying the user of the availability of the second near-end user terminal as a media endpoint for one or more of the calls, and prompting the user for a user selection as to whether to accept the second near-end terminal for use as said media end-point;
• in response to said detection, and on condition that said user-selection is affirmative, storing a configuration setting in non-volatile storage, configuring the first near-end terminal as having the second-near end terminal selected for use as said media end-point;
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• on a later occasion when the user makes one of said calls, after the first and second near-end user terminals have departed from and then returned to being within said proximity, automatically detecting the second near-end terminal and retrieving the configuration setting from the non-volatile storage, thereby using the second near-end user terminal to play or generate at least one voice or video stream of the call while the first near-end user terminal controls the call and/or plays out or generates at least one other voice or video stream of the call.