Richard, Richard Shockey wrote:
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I'm pretty sure I'll live to see Geographic portability in the US. Its technically its a trivial exercise.
humm... sure? Not about the technical part, certainly - but about your assumptions in regards of the flexibility and ability to move when it comes to regulators and the like. I recently during a VoIP round-table raised that very questions to a rep from RegTP, the German regulator, whether in the wake of the +49.32 deliberations there are any first thoughts to get rid of area specific codes, i.e. enable geographic portability. The answer was a clear "No, nothing whatsoever". Later on, during a privat chat, I heard something like "It's still partly used for PSTN routing and also important for tariffing" - humm... And a really heretic thought: what about phone numbers becoming a commodity sometime in the future, as in: fully portable on a global scale? Cheers, -C.