Detect and connect wireless phone services and local phone networks

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computer transmits a phone call over a network, comprising:

• communicating with a plurality of phones, wherein each phone communicates with a beacon gateway, and wherein a first phone communicates with the beacon gateway over a unique communications network different from a second phone that communicates with the beacon gateway;
• presenting a first indication on the first phone, wherein the first indication is indicative of the first phone connected to the beacon gateway using a first communication technology;
• presenting a plurality of indications of other phones at the first phone, wherein the plurality of indications represents features of the other phones;
• receiving an acknowledgement that a user selected the features of a second phone at the first phone;
• presenting a second indication on the first phone, wherein the second indication is indicative of the second phone connected to the beacon gateway using a second communication technology;
• connecting the first phone to a third phone using the features of the second phone to establish the phone call;
• and
• transmitting one or more signals related to the phone call to the third phone.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computer communicates a call, which is incoming to a first phone, to a mobile device, the computer-readable media comprising:

• a thin client, executing on the mobile device, configured to:
• receive an indication of the incoming call from a beacon gateway, wherein the beacon gateway comprises at least an antenna, a transmitter, a transcoder, a power manager, a landline-interface module, a thin client module, a tones generator, a receiver, and a dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) module;
• receive an indication of a ring tone associated with the first phone;
• present the ring tone;
• and
• if answered by the mobile device, presenting the incoming call on the mobile device through a telecommunications network associated with the first phone,
• wherein the thin client is executed to turn the beacon gateway into a proxy for the mobile device whereby the control features of the mobile device are provided at the beacon gateway.