Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G era approaching

Re:Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G ... by zaroth on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:07AM (#19919502)

That's "8kEUuBoURjsxZ" in Base56.

Or using the PGP wordlist, "bookshelf amusement Vulcan phonetic crackdown alkali merit candidate aardvark Atlantic"

So obviously that's not going to work! But IPv6 isn't meant to be a static identifier. We have DNS for that.

I do think there's a future where the concept of "phone number" no longer exists. But this isn't it.

EDIT: Made it clear I agree with lemcoe9 that this doesn't work.

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Re:Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G ... by slezyr on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:18AM (#19919598)

Good luck with that. Numbers are easier to pronounce/use/enter. Not everyone uses latin.

> "bookshelf amusement Vulcan phonetic crackdown alkali merit candidate aardvark Atlantic"

Make some chinese, japanese, russians to pronounce this on daily base.

EDIT: __aardvark__ had to google this one.

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Re:Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G ... by stuff4ben on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:59AM (#19920042)

You know someone is going to reserve "Longing, rusted, furnace, daybreak, seventeen, benign, nine, homecoming, one, freight car"

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