Richard Stallman got back to me with permission to quote our email. so read below:

ME:
I frequent the Neo900 discussion over at maemo.org. I was thinking
that including an old style one way paging network receiver into
mobile phone designs as a way of receiving incoming contact and
with a bit of software making fast callbacks very possible even
user friendly while keeping anonymity in position and movement as
well as saving battery by leaving the GSM radio turned off most
of the time. This seems to be in line with your privacy
principles.Being a community project it is more open to influence than a large
company.
I thought you would like this.

"Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>:
What a good idea! I am delighted. This might even result in making
portable phones acceptable for me to use.

Can you point me at a page describing the proposal?

What is the Neo900? Is it trying to develop a cell phone
that treats its users ethically? If so, I'd like to see how close
it comes to satisfying these criteria.

* The radio modem should be on a separate chip.

* The main computer should be able to turn the radio modem on and off.

* The microphone and the GPS should be connected to the main computer,
not to the radio modem.

* The software on the main computer should be free -- all of it.

* The radio modem should not be able to control the main computer
or alter its memory.

* It should be designed so that the nothing can alter the radio
modem's own software. This program must not be updatable.

Ideally you should be able to locate cell towers with a directional
antenna and use that antenna to talk with just one tower, so that the
phone network cannot triangulate to find you. But I don't know
whether this is really feasible at all.

in a later email asking form premission to quote..
RMS:
Also please tell them I think the idea of having a one-way pager
system so you know when to make it connect is a very very good idea.
/quote

I will send him the Neo900 update email where he was mentioned.