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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by st26 on Sunday April 29, 2018 @09:51PM (#16955147)
Phone numbers take you to an IMEI, which is looked up in some table.
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Re:France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 by walrus01 on Sunday April 29, 2018 @10:35PM (#16955268)
no, phone numbers "take you" to index lookup in the SS7 system, which might direct a call to a DID hosted by a voip operator, a DID connected to an ESS5 switch serving POTS/analog dialtone customers, a DID connected to a fractional DS3 and somebody's legacy PBX, or to a mobile phone network and an IMEI.

by no means does a phone number mean that it must always go to a mobile phone network.

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