Re:The User Experience of Mobile Phone Numbers
by nkw on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:01PM
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> But his premise of a DNS for phone numbers is ridiculous.
Re:The User Experience of Mobile Phone Numbers
by drvdevd on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:07PM
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I actually believe the PSTN is so ingrained in international networks that it will be around for another 50 years, minimum. Think SS7 and the fact that anything that touches PSTN relies on a legacy implementation at some point (probably all VoIP terminates there at some point, every cellular device, etc.). This is just a guess though on my part..
1. the telephone number system is terrible (but only in hindsight) 2. a telephone number should not be used for security
But his premise of a DNS for phone numbers is ridiculous. Does he think the PSTN was invented when smartphones came out? What about the wide plethora of legacy phones that would cause countless issues?
If someone did manage to complete he herculean (if not impossible) task of making it happen, it would be a massive waste; the PSTN will become obsolete in the not so distant future as internet based solutions take over.