Voice Over IP - Re: mobile network design, was Advice for calling US Mobile Phone?

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Re: mobile network design, was Advice for calling US Mobile Phone?

Ivor Jones

2005-05-28, 5:45 pm

John R. Levine wrote:

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> A positive result of the combined numbering is that the US mobile
> and landline networks are much more integrated than the European
> ones are. We can port phone numbers not just from one mobile
> carrier to another, but from mobile to landline and back, with
> landline also including VoIP. If I decide that I like my mobile
> and I want to dump my landline, I can port my landline number so
> that callers don't even know that I've switched and I don't have to
> give out a new number. Is that ever going to happen in Europe?
> Unlikely.

Another reason I like the US system.

I seem to be in a huge minority here in the UK though.

Ivor