A real phone for the whole house, on a private network where a child reaches only the family and friends both homes have approved. No smartphone. No open internet. No strangers. No spam.
Just real conversations with real people they know.
We are in pilot. Tell us roughly where you are and we will come back to you.
It was how a child first called a friend, how Granny rang to say goodnight, how you let someone know you were running late.
It quietly disappeared with the landline, and nothing safe took its place. A smartphone is the wrong answer for a young child: the open internet, strangers, apps and the endless scroll. So a whole generation of children is growing up without the simple thing the home phone gave the ones before them, a safe way to call the people they love, on their own.
eachOFus puts that phone back in the home, and fixes what went wrong with it. A child reaches only the people both homes approved, and no one else can reach in. The spam, the scams, the robocalls and the wrong numbers simply cannot happen here.
It is the home phone with all of the warmth and none of the noise.
Every phone has a real number, so a child can learn it and dial it just like any other phone. That number is not on the public network. It is not sold, listed, or reachable from an ordinary phone, so there is nothing for a scam or a wrong number to arrive on.
A child calls their best friend directly to make a plan. No borrowing a parent's phone, no app, no waiting.
A grandparent calls their grandchild on a phone they both understand, as easy as the old home phone.
A parent out of the house rings the home phone to catch the kids before they leave, even if the other parent is busy.
Reading a real number, dialling it, and holding a conversation. The phone etiquette a smartphone never teaches.
It will never ring with a scam, a stranger or a spam call. On a private network, it simply cannot.
A small circle of real people the family knows, not an open feed of everyone and anyone.
No landline needed. From then on it opens a line to a small switchboard the moment it powers up, like a permanent line to an operator.
A friend is added only when both homes say yes. Either home can withdraw it later, at any time.
Lift the handset, hear a dial tone, dial the number of an approved friend, and it rings in their house.
Parents get an app on their own phone. It is where you agree to a new friend, see who your children have been talking to, and quieten the house at homework time or bedtime.
The screens above are the real app, filled with a made up family. No real family's details appear on this page.
This is not a concept. Phones are in houses in Cape Town right now, ringing each other over the internet on the private network described above.
No, and not because we filter them out. The phone is not on the public telephone network at all, so it has no number an outsider could dial even if they wanted to. The only phones that can reach it are the ones in homes you and the other parent have both approved.
It uses your home wifi, and no landline at all. Plug it in, join the wifi once, and it works from then on. There is no line rental.
It does need your wifi to be on. If your power or internet goes down, so does the phone, which is one of the reasons it must never be your only way to call for help.
No. It cannot dial emergency services, and we will not pretend otherwise. It reaches only the circle you have approved. Every home needs another way to reach emergency services, and this phone is not it.
Yes. The parent app on your own phone can ring your own home phone, wherever you are. That is the one bridge in from the outside, and it is deliberately narrow: your cellphone reaches your home, and nothing else on the network.
Never. The switchboard carries the sound and keeps none of it. What is written down is who called whom and for how long, and nothing else. There are no transcripts and no recordings, because they do not exist to be handed over.
No. Because there is no telephone number involved, RICA does not apply and we never ask for an identity document or proof of address. That is a real difference from anything that connects to the ordinary phone network.
Far less than a smartphone, and we are building it to be affordable for a household with more than one child rather than a luxury for one. We are settling the exact price with the pilot families first, and we would rather tell you a real number than a hopeful one. Register your interest and we will tell you before you have to decide anything.
There is no small cap and no monthly bundle of minutes. A circle is meant to be the people a family actually knows: a few friends, the grandparents, the cousins. Calls within it are not metered.